Government authorities
tortured a woman to death on September 5 for refusing to deny her
evangelical faith. It was the fourth such killing in less than a year,
according to a Christian support organization.
Citing
Christian sources in the East African nation, Open Doors reported that
33-year-old Nigsti Haile was killed for refusing to sign a letter
renouncing her faith. Held at the Wi’a military training center 20
miles south of the Red Sea port of Massawa, Haile was one of 10 single
Christian women arrested at an independent church gathering in Keren.
The women have spent 18 months under severe pressure.
Eritrea
officially recognizes only Orthodox, Catholic, and Lutheran Christian
churches. In May 2002, it outlawed independent Protestant churches,
closing their buildings and banning them from meeting in private homes.
Haile was a member of a Rhema church.
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Are you insane? Trying to blame the Pope for a killing that occurs in a backward East African nation is patently ridiculous. The Pope considers all protestant Christians to be our separated brothers.
It seems you have an axe to grind to even propose this.
You don’t know the history of popes do you? But if a person is not a RC the pope said this past summer that you’re not Christian. They murdered a lot of Christians for having a Bible years ago. Do you remember William? I do. You need to read it again.
William Tyndale (sometimes spelled Tindall or Tyndall) (c. 1494 – 1536) was a 16th century Protestant reformer and scholar who translated the Bible into the Early Modern English of his day. Although a number of partial and complete Old English translations had been made from the 7th century onward, Tyndale’s was the first to take advantage of the new medium of print, which allowed for its wide distribution. In 1535 Tyndale was arrested, jailed in the castle of Vilvoorde outside Brussels, Belgium for more than a year, tried for heresy and treason and then strangled and burnt at the stake in the castle’s courtyard.[1] Yes I have an Axe to grind.