The BBC posted on 4 October 2021 an article titled "Ethiopia Tigray Crisis: From Monk to Soldier - How War Has Split a Church" by Fasikaw Menberu and Farouk Chathia.
Most Amhara and Tigrayans are members of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church (EOC). The current Patriarch of the EOC is an ethnic Tigrayan. The conflict in Ethiopia has increasingly become a conflict between Tigrayans and Amhara, ethnic groups whose regions border each other. This conflict has also led to a split in the EOC.
