{"id":448350,"date":"2023-05-30T12:26:19","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T16:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=448350"},"modified":"2023-05-30T12:26:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T16:26:19","slug":"2-orthodox-priests-among-4-shot-dead-by-suspected-ola-rebels-in-central-ethiopia-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/448350","title":{"rendered":"2 Orthodox priests among 4 shot dead by suspected OLA rebels in central Ethiopia: Report\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOTC) priests are among four people shot dead by suspected Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) rebels in Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, the EOTC affiliated media outlet Tewahedo Media Center (TMC) disclosed on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TMC reported deadly the attack which happened on Sunday late evening targeted Dera Amanuel Church located in the Arsi diocese of the EOTC.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to TMC the five deceased include a 72 years old elderly priest, a church guard and a local young man.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Tewahedo Media Center report further disclosed the suspected OLA attackers have kidnapped two other people including a 12-year-old girl.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The attackers are reportedly demanding ransom money from the families of the kidnap victims.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last month, as of yet unidentified attackers ransacked the Sodere Felege-Selam Medhanealem monastery located 25 kilometers from Adama city, the largest city in Oromia region.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adama is approximately 99kms southeast of Ethiopia\u2019s capital, Addis Ababa.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The unidentified attackers also kidnapped the Felege-Selam Medhanealem monastery bookkeeper and took him to an undisclosed location after the attack.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOTC) priests are among four people shot dead by suspected Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) rebels in Ethiopia\u2019s Oromia region, the EOTC affiliated media outlet Tewahedo Media Center (TMC) disclosed on Tuesday.\u00a0 TMC reported deadly the attack which happened on Sunday late evening targeted Dera Amanuel Church located in the Arsi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":448351,"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":[8,4821],"tags":[5845],"class_list":["post-448350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news","category-news","tag-ethiopia-agoa-pm-abiyu-s"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/347399622_148475558220314_1467884658505140542_n.jpg?fit=843%2C785&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1SDs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448350","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\/270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448352,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448350\/revisions\/448352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}