Remains of Kale Hiwot Galeto church building in Halaba Kulito, Ethiopia, after attack on Feb. 9, 2019.
NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Christians in a town in southern Ethiopia were stunned when local Muslims attacked 10 church buildings on Feb. 9, destroying one and burning the property inside all the structures, according to aid agencies.
Chanting the jihadist slogan, “Allahu akbar [God is greater],” Muslims in Halaba Kulito targeted worship buildings belonging to eight denominations, reported Scotland-based aid agency Steadfast Global and Voice of the Martyrs-Canada. Kale Hiwot Galeto church’s building was razed.
“The incensed crowds comprising Muslim residents of all ages from across the town made their way to the churches chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ after being given false information that a mosque in the surrounding countryside had been fire-bombed,” said a Steadfast Global representative who requested anonymity. “The contents of all the churches were removed from the buildings and set on fire on the street.”
Except for some minor vandalism, Christians in the town have not suffered such attacks to this extent, he said. But Halaba Kulito, in the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR), is a predominantly Muslim town with nearly all Christians there having moved from surrounding villages for work reasons, creating an underlying tension, he added.
He learned from witnesses that an Islamic conference was held in Halaba Kulito about week before the trouble flared that included speakers suspected of holding extremist views, but he said he had no information on what was said at the conference.
Witnesses indicated that the assailants were clearly instructed to target only property and not Christians, he said.
One of the attacked churches, Meserete Kristos Church, has since been vandalized again, and area Christians have faced intimidation and threats, he added.
While Kale Hiwot Galeto church building was destroyed in the Feb. 9 attack, aid workers believe the other nine church buildings were not set ablaze only because of the risk to neighboring Muslim-owned properties.
Municipal police were present during almost every attack but took no action, the agencies reported.
The attacks lasted about five hours, with state police arriving in town in the early afternoon and restoring order. A number of the assailants were said to be arrested and placed in custody, and the aid agencies believe they will be charged and tried.
More than 9,900 worshippers are estimated to attend the 10 churches. A small number of Christians sustained minor injuries and returned home after receiving hospital treatment, including two that were more seriously injured, according to the aid agencies.
Huge amounts of property were destroyed, including Bibles, song books, instruments, benches and chairs.
Despite the destruction, all of the congregations managed to meet for worship the following Sunday, the agencies reported. At the same time, after the attack a significant number of Christians chose not to gather for worship out of fear, they learned. The local government has allocated a police guard to each of the attacked the churches.
Most of the churches are gathering contributions from their members to try to replace damaged items, but they will need help from the wider church, according to the aid agencies, which have distributed emergency funds and are studying ways for ministry partners to help restore and rebuild.
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Ziggy46
5 years ago
I, for one, believe the silence from the Western leadership and Pope Frances will be deafening. Christians and specifically Jews are fair game for slaughter by the Muslim scourge. There might come insincere platitudes from the Vatican or others but only to reassure or dupe the non-Muslim masses. Professing is not Islam perpetrating these evildoings but psychologically bent people, or those suffering from culture shock in guise as Muslims.
Once again, the majority of non-Muslims will nod donkey-like to their despotic Western masters and the latter to their tyrannical masters, Islam.
The upper bound on the number of Hindus slaughtered by muslums in the Indian sub-continent is 80 million, arguably the greatest genocide in the history of mankind and the muslums have not stopped killing Hindus across the Indian sub-continent.
It is utterly despicable, and heinous; I was speaking with a Hindu man some years ago and he mentioned the same number of Hindus slaughtered by the cult of death, give or take a couple of million. Most disturbing is, it overlooked, denied or not taught ot mentioned throughout the West. What the hell is going on in the beyond mad world? A rhetorical question.
I wish Israel and India would form a military alliance, expel all their muslum vermin and invite the muslum world and their lapdogs in the dying atheist West to a nuclear apocalypse if they object.
It sounds right to me; Israel and India hold a deep respect for each other. India realizes the advantage of allying with Israel and not some Cult of Death. Israel is a land of great strides in medicine and the technological sciences and nor a fervent gaggle of xenophobes and murderers. A Democracy, more so than the Western pseudo-Democracies of the West. The West will, in time, toss Israel under the proverbial bus; G-d knows they have tried over the last decade, perhaps more.
Considering the rotten, corrupt, depraved, decadent atheist West has already bombed Christians on behalf of their muslum masters I can foresee a day the rotten, corrupt, depraved, decadent atheist West uses or threatens to use military force against countries actually resisting the muslum vermin — including places like Israel, Myanmar and Angola.
You are not wrong, MuhamMud; the West is rife with treasonous vermin joining forces with their Muslim Masters. The EU is the quintessential traitor but their are others. The list is long. Fair weather allies bent on the destruction of the State of Israel , especially. If the Democrats were to regain power the State of Israel would have to go into War mode. Resisting Islam is deemed treasonous, figure that one out. Empowering those, the Muslims, to overthrow Israel, while they and their American abettors, the Democrats and the Leftist-Progressives, are culpable in the endeavor to destroy the Republic, hand-in-hand with the Muslim scourge.
You’re right it’s sick and sad. I don’t know why the Hindus are beating up on Christians considering the muslum vermin have been persecuting/slaughtering/raping them for centuries.
The pope spends all his time praising islam and kissing muslim feet. The Ethiopians stand a better chance of relief from the Man in the Moon. Some Evangelical groups have the will and some resources to help but are stretched very thin at present. Big-name Western evangelicals will continue wasting time praising Rick Warren and Joel Osteen to be of any help.
It’s what muslims do as they all follow their doctrine of hate that demands killing and destruction on all non-muslims! And yet the ignorant libturds believe that muslims are peaceful….can’t fix STUPID with libturds or muslims!!!!
that’s why muslims want other people .. of any race … of any skin colors … of any social backgrounds…. to convert to become muslims …. to become their true brothers … to become part of their life ..
you don’t need to have specific DNA configuration to become muslims ….
Not once does your “Allah” speak of love. Mercy is not the same as love. You already know the truth about Jesus Christ ; why would the scriptures talk of the necessity of believing that the Son came in the flesh if He was only a prophet, only a man – men and prophets came in the flesh always – nothing special to have to believe that.
What is the love of God, ” For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life”, John 3:16 ; “The lord is not slack concerning His promise..but is longsuffering towards us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance”, 2Peter 3:9. This is what real love looks like, and He even loves you and longs for you to come to repentance and acknowledge His Son’s sacrifice.
Your sins are still upon you Semur, if death waits at your door, as you are, you will die in them and be forever lost.
You are so full of camel sh*t that your eyes are brown! Anywhere that people are attacked in the world today it’s parasitic feral animal muslims doing the attacks & killing!!!! STFU and get lost goat boy!!!!
Roma Mikhasev
5 years ago
planet of apes
John Acord
5 years ago
Can you imagine the outrage of the enemedia had the Christians attacked the mosques and burned them? It would have been headlines throughout the world.
The answer to that should be to, preferably on Friday’s, blow up all the mosques in Ethiopia, confiscate the land, sell it and with the proceeds restore all the churches.
Rick Gouveia
5 years ago
This meme is triggering marxists.
Alfa Hidequel
5 years ago
Muslims, the people of the Devil. Allah = Devil.
ninetyninepct
5 years ago
Where there is violence there is probably Islam. Where there is Islam there IS violence. Civilized people became suspicious when the first thing we heard was “HI, nice to meet you. I am a Muslim, the religion of peace.” . I knew instantly it wasn’t.
I am tired of the BIGOTRY being shown against other religions by the mohamMADens. Let it be know that every church building of a different religion that is destroyed, one mossk is too be leveled.
cestusdei
5 years ago
Muslims do like destroying churches. It’s like a hobby with them. Then they complain when we are reluctant to allow mosques.
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