The Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Abune Mathias, recently spoke out via YouTube in a 15 minute video on the situation in Tigray Region of Ethiopia. Muzzled until now, Abune Mathias spoke in Addis Ababa; the video has English subtitles.
The Ethiopian Orthodox Church college of electors named Abune Mathias to his position as head of the Church in 2013 after he had served as Bishop in North America. He was born in Tigray Region.
