Ethiopia: Muslims attack Christian with machetes for evangelizing

“The man – who, for security reasons, cannot be named – was attacked in Hirna…”

He cannot be named because if Muslims find out who he is, some will try to kill him again. Islamic law forbids non-Muslims to proselytize among Muslims on pain of death.

Ethiopian Christian attacked with machetes for evangelising,” World Watch Monitor, July 31, 2017:

An Ethiopian Christian suffered deep wounds to the back of his head when he was attacked while alone in his home by a group of local Muslims with machetes[.]

The attack on 16 July left the 27-year-old man needing life-saving surgery.

The man – who, for security reasons, cannot be named – was attacked in Hirna, a rural town 400 KM east of the capital, Addis Ababa. His local clinic referred him to the hospital in nearby Asebeteferi who in turn sent him to Adama, where a doctor, believing he would die en route to a bigger hospital, operated on his wounds. Although he is still unwell, the surgery stabilised him enough to be taken elsewhere for more specialised treatment.

A source told World Watch Monitor that the gang of Muslims who attacked the man were angry because he was [telling people about Jesus] evangelizing. The gang had first attacked the local Full Gospel Church and partly damaged its roof and a wall before going to the man’s house….

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