During the holy month of Ramadan, @AbiyAhmedAli and @ShimelisAbdisa are wiping out entire generations of Amhara Muslims in Wollega, Oromia Region. Pictured here are an Amhara child, mother, and grandfather hacked to death by Oromia Special Forces just this week.
Ethiopia: 34 Orthodox Christians have been killed in the Arsi, Oromia region.
Eight others remain hospitalized. Another eight are missing. Two were kidnapped.
These Christians were murdered by an ethno-nationalist group called the Oromo Liberation Army and is part of an ongoing pattern in the region.
The motivation behind the attacks is ethnic as much as it is religious, yet it is Christians who keep getting killed.
The OLA employs terrorism to pursue an independent Oromo state and frequently targets the Amhara tribe, many of whom are Orthodox Christians.
Many have condemned these killings and we add our voice to theirs.
Pray for the Christians of Ethiopia.
Report by @ChristianEmerg1
#Ethiopia: While the world focused on the Israel-Iran conflict, the Ethiopian gov’t-backed Oromo-Islamist groups tied to Al-Shabaab were massacring Orthodox Christians in Arsi, Oromia. Ethiopia is turning into an incubation center for the Muslim Brotherhood terrorist network.
Preaching Over Graves: Franklin Graham’s Silence on the Amhara Genocide
Franklin Graham, what god do you serve? You step onto Ethiopian soil, where the blood of thousands of Amharas and Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOTC) followers is still fresh, yet you preach of salvation while ignoring the carnage unfolding before your eyes. What manner of gospel is this? What god condones silence in the face of genocide?
You speak of revival in a land where churches are burned, priests are executed, and faithful believers are slaughtered for refusing to submit to Abiy Ahmed’s ethno-fascist state. You stand alongside the very regime that has turned Ethiopia into a graveyard for its oldest Christian community, yet you dare to claim you are spreading the word of Christ? No, Franklin Graham. You are not here to bring light. You are here to provide moral cover for the darkness that is consuming Ethiopia.
While you rally for lost souls, thousands of Amhara children are orphaned by state-sanctioned massacres. While you pray in Meskel Square, drones rain fire on Amhara villages. While you speak of repentance, the regime you refuse to condemn has turned faith into a death sentence.
Where was your voice when Orthodox Christians were butchered in their homes? Where was your outrage when churches were desecrated and monks were gunned down? Where was your gospel when Amhara civilians were executed in mass graves, their bodies left to rot in the streets? You preach about a spiritual capital while standing in the ruins of a slaughterhouse.
As Dietrich Bonhoeffer memorably said, “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” Your silence is complicity. Your presence is an endorsement. And your gospel, Franklin Graham, is hollow when it does not speak against evil.
For those who still doubt the scale of the atrocities unfolding, the United Nations Human Rights Council report (A/HRC/55/NGO/186) documents the mass killings, drone strikes, and systematic targeting of Amhara civilians under Abiy Ahmed’s genocidal campaign. Read it here:
🔗 UNHRC Report
Do not claim to preach the gospel while ignoring genocide. Stand for truth or be counted among those who enabled evil.
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