{"id":352127,"date":"2021-03-10T15:43:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T20:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=352127"},"modified":"2021-03-11T00:12:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T05:12:09","slug":"a-video-footage-displaying-christians-attending-annual-celebration-of-saint-mary-at-axum-tsiyon-church-two-days-after-alleged-massacre-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/352127","title":{"rendered":"A video footage displaying Christians attending annual celebration of Saint Mary at Axum Ts&#8217;iyon Church two days after alleged massacre (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation (EBC) released a video footage displaying thousands of followers of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church attending annual celebration of Saint Mary in November 2020 in Tigray\u2019s Axum town at Axum Ts&#8217;iyon \u00a0Mariam Church, two days after reports of massacre at the same place where nearly 1000 people were apparently killed by Eritrean troops.<\/p>\n<p>Priests and followers told EBC that the celebration was peaceful despite the smaller number Christians attending the celebrations due to the conflict in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The video footage below partly disproved the reports by various foreign media about the alleged massacre on 28 &#8211; 29 November 2020 inside the church where extrajudicial killings reportedly were committed starting from 19 November 2020.Video:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"454\" height=\"255\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/utAj-DsgfjE\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation (EBC) released a video footage displaying thousands of followers of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church attending annual celebration of Saint Mary in November 2020 in Tigray\u2019s Axum town at Axum Ts&#8217;iyon \u00a0Mariam Church, two days after reports of massacre at the same place where nearly 1000 people were apparently killed by Eritrean [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":352128,"comment_status":"open","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-352127","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\/2021\/03\/Axum.png?fit=249%2C195&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1tBt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352127","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\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":352196,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352127\/revisions\/352196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}