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Eritrea in the recent time has witnessed an intense victimization and suppression of the Christian population. The situation has gotten so bad that the global community has to step in to checkmate these anomalies coming from this little African nation.

More worrisome is the fact that most of the persecutions come from the very hands of the government officials who are meant to protect the rights of all citizens in the country. Take for instance just this month a report came from the International Christian Concern (ICC) an organization that advocates the cause of persecuted Christians
that the officials in Eritrean arrested eleven Christians, which includes women and children.

This very arrest took place in the Eritrean capital of Asmara and for no justifiable reason than that they were exercising their religious rights.

It’s heard that among those arrested are two pastors, Mesfin and Tekie and one brother Isaac and his four children, alongside four other women who are members of Faith Church of Christ and that they’re arrested while conducting a prayer meeting at a private home in Maitemenai, Asmara.

It’s also gathered that this church in question has been in existence in Eritrea since 1950 and that it’s among the evangelical churches that were banned by Eritrean officials in 2002.

The Ugly Death of a Christian Woman

It was also reported recently that one Eritrean Christian woman, Hana Hagos Asgedom, 41, died in prison after refusing to make the prison chief a cup of coffee. She was subsequently beaten with an iron rod for resisting the order and died as a result of that.

Hana, a member of Asabe Rhema Church, was held for three years at Wi'a Military Camp, near the Red Sea port of Massawa and was later moved to Alla, where she was forced to choose between renouncing her faith and being held in solitary confinement, but as the case would be, Hana chose the latter and died for her faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Again it was reported that ten Christians from the same church were put in detention after security officials raided the Asmara home of a prominent pastor Tewelde Hailom, the founding elder of the Full Gospel Church in Asmara.

As if that was not enough, two days later, seven other Christians from the same Full Gospel Church were taken into custody, this time a woman named, Besrat Gebray and six other men were taken away by security operatives.

Reports also have it that, the Eritrean officials have so far imprisoned more than 3,000 Christians simply for exercising their religious freedom and that these imprisoned Christians are kept under inhumane conditions in underground dungeons, metal shipping containers, and military barracks. Meanwhile several Christians have been paralyzed and blinded, and have even died inside prisons while those imprisoned were never charged before any court of law.