{"id":279432,"date":"2019-06-19T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiZmh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnNpZ2h0bWFnYXppbmUuY29tLmF1L25ld3MvMTI1NTItZXRoaW9waWFuLWV2YW5nZWxpY2FsLWNodXJjaC10b2xkLXRvLXZhY2F0ZS1hZnRlci0xMC15ZWFyc9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-10-01T11:16:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:16:49","slug":"sight-magazine-said-an-ethiopian-evangelical-church-was-ordered-to-vacate-after-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/279432","title":{"rendered":"Sight Magazine said an Ethiopian evangelical church was ordered to vacate after 10 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 19 June 2019 Sight Magazine reported that an evangelical church in central Ethiopia had been ordered to vacate its building ten years after it began meeting there, while other churches in the region faced related pressure.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-598256\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/east-wollega-featured.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sight Magazine said an Ethiopian evangelical church was ordered to vacate after 10 years\" \/>\n<p>The religion brief framed the eviction order as part of wider disputes over worship space and local authority decisions affecting Protestant congregations.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as religion and society archive, the Sight Magazine report dates a mid-2019 church-vacate order in central Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sightmagazine.com.au\/news\/12552-ethiopian-evangelical-church-told-to-vacate-after-10-years\">Sight Magazine<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian evangelical church told to vacate after 10 years&nbsp;&nbsp;Sight MagazineAn evangelical church in central Ethiopia has been ordered to vacate its building, 10 years after it started meeting there, and churches elsewhere in the region &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":598256,"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-279432","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\/2026\/09\/east-wollega-featured.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1aGY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279432","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=279432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755274,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279432\/revisions\/755274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}