2022-03-12 00:27:02
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In
the name
of the Fa
ther, the
Son, and
the Holy
Spirit,
One God,
Amen
Moa
Tewahedo
calls for
Orthodox and all believers in all walks of life who believe in equality, the right to life, the right to citizenship, and the freedom to worship God.
Subject: Prevent the ongoing Cultural and Religious base Genocide on the Ethiopian Orthodox Christians under the cover-up of ethnic conflict.
Since its inception in 1966, it has been openly ideologically, systematically and structurally attacked to weaken the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church as a religious institution and to destroy its followers. The attacks continue to this day. It has been embroiled in controversy under the guise of revolution, ethnic equality, government change, and ethnic conflict.
Over the past four years, Orthodox Christians have been massacred in Benishangul-Gumz region, SNNPR region, Oromia region, Addis Ababa, special zones in Amhara region, Tigray Axum (Danglat Mariam), etc., because of their religion. While orthodox isolation, killings, and widespread violence are commonplace, the current federal and regional governments prefer to keep silent rather than fulfill their obligations.
The process of exterminating the Orthodox has reached a tipping point by dividing the Orthodox in their own country along racial and linguistic lines, promoting, organizing, structuring and giving a hidden racial political agenda to the political ideology.
Therefore, the time is over now and we should not allow the federal government and regional governments and their structures to attack the Church ideologically, systematically and structurally; We should not allow running politics at the cost of Orthodox Church and followers. Instead, we should enforce them to hear and listen the voice of Orthodox as well as respect the right, peace, and security of the Church followers.
And we call on all Orthodox Christians who believe in "this is enough" and all other denominations who believe in human equality and dignity to sign this petition and stand up for truth, justice, and humanity.
Truth and justice will prevail forever!!!
Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church Questions Requiring an Immediate Response from the Government of Ethiopia
1. Expressions and messages that are deliberately imbedded in the current Constitution, manifestos of different political parties including Prosperity Party, in the formal education curriculum, the media editorial polices and day to day message, development and cultural polices should be stopped immediately.
2. The current government practice deliberately excluding Orthodox Christians from equally participating in the state structure kebele (low level government structure) to the federal government (high level government structure), denying employment opportunities, holding government offices , displacing farmers and traders from their properties, narrowing opportunities for wealth creation, should be stopped immediately, and the current theocratic state that alienates Orthodox Christians should transform itself in to popular and secular government that treat every citizen of the nation equally. .
3. The political effort to divide the Orthodox Church along the languages and ethnic lines and the ongoing campaigns and activities in the name of research and scholarship, political cadre training, media defamations should be stopped immediately.
4. Immediate cessation of physical, psychological, economic, social, political, displacement, exclusion from socio-economic affaires and the ongoing genocide against the Orthodox.
5. Details of the attacks so far should be brought to justice, the perpetrators should be punished, and the injured should be compensated.
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