{"id":11410,"date":"2020-12-18T17:57:28","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T17:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/?p=11410"},"modified":"2020-12-18T17:57:28","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T17:57:28","slug":"ethiopia-remember-us-in-your-prayers-bishop-of-adigrate-appeals-as-tigray-situation-worsens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2020\/12\/18\/ethiopia-remember-us-in-your-prayers-bishop-of-adigrate-appeals-as-tigray-situation-worsens\/","title":{"rendered":"ETHIOPIA: Remember Us in Your Prayers, Bishop of Adigrate Appeals as Tigray Situation Worsens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Kaufa smm<\/em><\/p>\n

Bishop Tesfassilasie Medhin of the Ethiopia\u2019s Eparchy of Adigrate has asked the Church in AMECEA region to remember in their prayers the people of Tigray as the humanitarian situation continues to agonize civilians following the Ethiopia government launched the military attack that has blocked the cities and towns in the region.<\/p>\n

Sharing with AMECEA Secretariat on Tuesday December 7, 2020, the Bishop of the Eparchy of Adigrate described the military attack as a siege over the region.<\/p>\n

\u201cTh entire region from the four directions is under siege. The total population of nearly eight million people is locked down,\u201d he says and continues, \u201cThere is no communication at all, no telephone service, no banking services, no internet services , no electricity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bishop Tesfassilasie Medhin\u2019s concern is supported by other news sources such as Kenya\u2019s Daily Nation<\/em> of Friday December 11, 2020, the global news agency AFP.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the United Nations which together with the Ethiopian government have launched a joint mission to assess the humanitarian needs in Tigray where it is reported that thousands of people are leaving the region to seek refuge in Sudan.<\/p>\n

Over 140,000 people, according to the international media, are leaving the region to seek refuge in Sudan.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome walk for 10 days to reach Sudan; mothers carrying their crying babies out of hunger, afraid of the unknown shocks of war; women traumatized and in tears flowing,\u201d says Bishop Medhin who diocese is right in the middle of the agonized population.<\/p>\n

Bishop Medhin further decries the total collapse of the social and government systems in the urban centres.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to Red Cross reports, health service providing institutions such as hospitals, health centres are exhausted; sad narrations such as humanitarian catastrophe, terror and fearsome events have become the daily news,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Worse still, he says, the military attach was launched at harvest time meaning that even though some of the harvest has been destroyed by the swarms of locusts that affected the entire east Africa region, the entire Tigray region\u2019s food supply from the rural areas is affected.<\/p>\n

Bishop Medhin\u2019s fear is that people will die in masses if the situation continues in this way for the coming months.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf no international bodies intervene, this will be the worst humanitarian crisis in Africa.\u201d In fact, \u201cThis is the worst situation ever the people have encountered in the region: over 1.3 million already displaced; over 4 million people in need of humanitarian aid according to a local media report,\u201d opines the Bishop of Adigrate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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