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SANTA ANA, CA ANS — Sources in Eritrea says there has been a death of another Christian in Mitire Military Confinement Camp. Yemane Kahasay Andom, 43, of the Kale-Hiwot church of Mendefera died Thursday, July 23. He allegedly was secretly buried in the camp. He had spent the past 18 months in Mitire. Compass Direct News reports: Three Christians incarcerated in military prisons for their faith have died in the past four months in Eritrea, including the death on Friday Jan. 16 of a 42-year-old man in solitary confinement, according to a Christian support organization. A campaign of mass arrests initiated in late November has now reached the Eritrean capital city of Asmara, occasioning the detention of over 100 men, women and children from a variety of Christian denominations. By Dan Wooding WASHINGTON, DC ANS – The Washington-DC based human rights group, International Christian Concern (ICC) says that it has learned that Eritrean officials imprisoned about 20 Christians belonging to the underground Faith Missions Church on Sunday, October 12, 2008, in Deki-Zeru, a town 30km away from Asmara, the capital. “The Christians were >>>Continue reading >>> Compass Direct News reports that Authorities on Tuesday (August 5) locked up eight high school students at a military training school in metal shipping containers for objecting to the burning of hundreds of Bibles, sources told Compass. The eight male students from the Sawa Defense Training Centre in Sawa, near Eritrea’s border with Sudan, were incarcerated after >>>Continue reading >>> |
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