{"id":448718,"date":"2023-06-02T05:20:42","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T09:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=448718"},"modified":"2023-11-19T18:55:33","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T23:55:33","slug":"ethiopian-orthodox-church-says-investigation-underway-into-debre-elias-monastery-unrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/448718","title":{"rendered":"Church officials say investigation is underway into the attack on Debre Elias monastery"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOTC) disclosed on Thursday evening it has begun an investigation into recent unrest in the Debre-Elias monastery located in Ethiopia\u2019s northern Amhara region.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In a press statement, the EOTC Patriarchate Head Office said it’s conducting an investigation into the \u201cproblem\u201d that happened in the Debre-Elias Melake-Trinity Unity monastery located in the East Gojjam zone of Amhara region.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The statement further said its office is currently having conversations with relevant entities regarding the recent deadly unrest in the monastery.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The EOTC Patriarchate Head Office statement also expressed condolences to the victims of an attack on Dera-Amanuel Church located in the Arsi diocese of the EOTC.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The church statement also said it plans to follow legal routes to find justice for the Dera-Amanuel Church attack victims.<\/span><\/p>\n

The attack by gunmen on Dera-Amanuel Church which happened on Sunday evening left four people dead including two priests. Two other people including a 12-year-old girl were kidnapped in the attack.<\/span><\/p>\n

Separately, Mereja.com sources disclosed that Ethiopian army soldiers are looting precious artifacts from Debre-Elias Melake-Trinity Unity monastery.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Mereja.com sources also said soldiers have destroyed monks\u2019 restrooms, the monastery\u2019s cattle, crosses, and holy books.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the Amharic language service of Deutsche Welle (DW) media outlet reported scores of people have been killed in clashes between security forces and EOTC faithful in Debre-Elias district of East Gojjam zone.<\/span><\/p>\n

The clashes which were centered in a local monastery have left around 95 percent of the estimated 600 people who used to live in the monastery dead, injured, or dispersed, DW reported citing eyewitnesses.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

DW further reported eyewitnesses have told it of use of heavy weaponry in the clashes by security forces.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Ethiopian government and the Amhara region administration are so far silent on the recent clashes in the Debre-Elias district of the East Gojjam zone of the Amhara region.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOTC) disclosed on Thursday evening it has begun an investigation into recent unrest in the Debre-Elias monastery located in Ethiopia\u2019s northern Amhara region.\u00a0 In a press statement, the EOTC Patriarchate Head Office said it’s conducting an investigation into the \u201cproblem\u201d that happened in the Debre-Elias Melake-Trinity Unity monastery located in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":448719,"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":[5845],"class_list":["post-448718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news","tag-ethiopia-agoa-pm-abiyu-s"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/ge1.jpg?fit=542%2C540&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1SJo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448718","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=448718"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467089,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448718\/revisions\/467089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}