{"id":278009,"date":"2019-06-04T18:27:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T22:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEFGsVVT5ghHEv0AQODlqHYQqGAgEKg8IACoHCAow5vrMATC_9SQwxbyWAw?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-26T11:15:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T15:15:29","slug":"a-u-s-lgbtq-tour-company-said-ethiopian-religious-campaigners-threatened-its-planned-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278009","title":{"rendered":"A U.S. LGBTQ tour company said Ethiopian religious campaigners threatened its planned visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

In June 2019 the New York Daily News reported that Chicago-based Toto Tours, which markets trips to LGBTQ travelers, faced a wave of hostile messages after Ethiopian blogger Seyoum Teshome publicized the group\u2019s planned October itinerary.<\/p>\n\"A\n

Founder Dan Ware said the pressure included death threats and calls to block the visitors from ancient religious sites, turning a tourism booking into a national culture-war story about faith, sexuality, and who is welcome in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n

Kept as social and religion archive, the Daily News file dates the mid-2019 campaign against a U.S. LGBTQ tour that dominated Ethiopian online debate that week.<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/strong> New York Daily News<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ethiopian religious groups harassing U.S.-based LGBTQ tour company sending hundreds of messages, \u2018threatening our lives\u2019  New York Daily NewsReligious groups in Ethiopia have started a relentless hate campaign against a Chicago-based tour com…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":278068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Toto-Tours-faces-opposition-in-EthiopiaToto-Tours-faces-opposition-in-Ethiopia.jpg?fit=660%2C371&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1ak1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278009"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755041,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278009\/revisions\/755041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}