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Country: Eritrea

15 Christians re-arrested

The Eritrean authorities recently arrested 15 Christians in raids on their houses in the capital Asmara. All have previously been imprisoned for their faith – some for up to 16 years.

20.09.2021
Human Rights Without Frontiers
Eritrea
Christians (victims)
Muslims (offenders)

Two elderly pastors imprisoned for their faith

Two elderly pastors are being held in Eritrea’s maximum-security interrogation center as one of the world’s most repressive and closed countries continues to persecute Christians.

11.09.2021
Human Rights Without Frontiers & Anugrah Kumar
Eritrea
Christians (victims)

About 400 individuals still detained for their faith, according to USCIRF

Despite several collective releases in 2020 and 2021, about 400 Eritreans are still behind bars, according to the latest report of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).

27.08.2021
Human Rights Without Frontiers & Willy Fautré
Eritrea
Christians (victims)
Christian marginal groups (victims)

Situation of human rights: Report of Mohamed Abdelsalam Babiker, the UN Special Rapporteur

The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 44/1, in which the Council extended the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea for one year and requested the mandate holder to present a report on the implementation of the mandate to the Council at its forty-seventh session.

12.06.2021
Human Rights Without Frontiers
Eritrea
Christians (victims)
Christian marginal groups (victims)

21 women imprisoned from underground church raids freed

More than 20 female Christian prisoners have been freed in Eritrea but the forces of the country have been accused of attacking churches in a nearby Ethiopian region.

10.03.2021
Libby Giesbrecht & Human Rights Without Frontiers
Eritrea
Christians (victims)

Christian prisoners Twen Theodros and Mussie Eyob are free!

Human Rights without Frontiers still has over 160 Protestants, 20 Jehovah’s Witnesses and 4 Coptic Orthodox in its Database of FoRB prisoners. See https://hrwf.eu/prisoners-database/

26.02.2021
Human Rights Without Frontiers
Eritrea
Secularists/Atheists (offenders)
Christians (victims)

70 Christians released from three prisons

CSW has been informed that 70 Christians from evangelical and orthodox backgrounds were recently released from three prisons in Eritrea.

5.02.2021
Human Rights Without Frontiers
Eritrea
Christians (victims)
Christian marginal groups (victims)

Eritrea releases 28 Jehovah’s Witnesses from prison

Human Rights Without Frontiers urges the Eritrean authorities to release the 24 JW who are still behind bars

7.12.2020
Human Rights Without Frontiers
Eritrea
Christian marginal groups (victims)
Secularists/Atheists (offenders)
Christians (victims)

Conditional release of 27 Christian prisoners

CSW has confirmed that 27 Eritrean Christians were released from Mai Serwa Prison near Eritrea’s capital, Asmara, on 4 and 8 September, possibly in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic.

15.09.2020
Human Rights Without Frontiers
Eritrea
Christians (victims)

27 Christian prisoners released

A trusted contact of Release International says the government has just set free 27 prisoners, most of whom have been behind bars for more than ten years.

14.09.2020
Human Rights Without Frontiers
Eritrea
Christians (victims)

Eritrean evangelical Christians freed on bail due to COVID-19

The Eritrean government has released on bail more than 20 prisoners who’d been in detention for years because of their faith, the BBC reports.

11.09.2020
World Watch Monitor & Julia Bicknell
Eritrea
Christians (victims)
Christian marginal groups (victims)

UK’s advocacy about Patriarch Antonios of the Eritrean Orthodox Church

On 3 June Lord Hylton filed a written question (Ref. HL5197) about the situation of Patriarch Antonios of the Eritrean Orthodox Church. On 15 June, Baroness Sugg answered in the name of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office:

22.06.2020
Human Rights Without Frontiers
Eritrea
Christians (victims)
Secularists/Atheists (offenders)

Orthodox Christians in prison

Despite state recognition, the Eritrean Orthodox Church and its Patriarch have been heavily persecuted since Eritrea became independent from Ethiopia in 1991.[1]

22.06.2020
Human Rights Without Frontiers
Eritrea
Christians (victims)
Christian marginal groups (victims)
Secularists/Atheists (offenders)

At least 150 Christians arrested in Eritrea clampdown

At least 150 Eritrean Christians were arrested by government officials during the last two months, with some of them held in an underground prison made up of tunnels.

23.08.2019
World Watch Monitor
Eritrea
Christians (victims)
Muslims (offenders)

Eritrea: Restoring religious freedom in the 'North Korea of Africa'

Taken from USCIRF Daily News Digest September 26, 2017

26.09.2017
Eritrea
Muslims (offenders)
Christians (victims)

Eritrea: Eritrean Christians Call for Day of Prayer for Church Leader Under House Arrest

Taken from USCIRF Daily News Digest September 19, 2017

19.09.2017
Eritrea
Muslims (offenders)
Christians (victims)

Eritrea: imprisoned Christian mother dies, as arrests continue

Taken from USCIRF Daily News Digest August 15, 2017

19.08.2017
Eritrea

Eritrea: Eritrean Patriarch’s first appearance in decade dismissed as ‘figleaf’

Taken from USCIRF Daily News Digest July 21, 2017

25.07.2017
Eritrea

Eritrea: Eritrean Christian women detained in ‘notoriously harsh prison’

Taken from USCIRF Daily News Digest June 30, 2017

4.07.2017
Eritrea

Eritrea: Eritrea arrests another 22 Christians

Taken from USCIRF Daily News Digest June 19, 2017

21.06.2017
Eritrea

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30.06.2022

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Bonner Querschnitte 25/2022 Ausgabe 729 (eng)

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Bonner Querschnitte 22/2022 Ausgabe 726 (eng)

WEA and IJCIC hold historic first meeting in Jerusalem on jewish-evangelical relations

Bonner Querschnitte 22/2022 Ausgabe 726

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„Der Traum, der nicht sterben wollte“

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