Evangelical Focus published on 17 November 2022 an article titled "Ethiopia and Tigray Reach Peace Agreement 'to Prevent Total Extinction of the Region', Say Evangelicals" by Jonatan Soriano.
Evangelicals welcome the Ethiopian peace agreement but fear the ethnic divisions in Ethiopia are so wide and deep that they will take generations to overcome.
Christianity Today published on 11 November 2022 an article titled "Ethiopia-Tigray Peace Agreement Contains Biblical Mandate" by Jayson Casper.
This article looks at the recent peace agreement between the central government and Tigray Region from the standpoint of Christian religious persons in Ethiopia.
Foreign Policy published on 18 June 2022 a commentary titled "Christian Nationalism Is Tearing Ethiopia Apart" by Andrew DeCort.
Evangelicalism is exploding in Ethiopia today. The Evangelicals see Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed as the 7th King or at least a useful tool for their ambitions. The author concluded that in his two decades studying and working in Ethiopia he has "never seen such bitter hatred and raw hopelessness." He fears that violence on the scale of Rwanda could erupt.
The New York Times published on 21 June 2021 an article titled "From Nobel Hero to Driver of War, Ethiopia's Leader Faces Voters" by Declan Walsh.
The Washington Post published on 20 June 2021 an article titled "Ethiopia's Historic Election Overshadowed by a Cascade of Crises and Conflict" by Max Bearak.
I interviewed live today with Al Jazeera English on the International Criminal Court's decision to serve an arrest warrant to President Bashir of Sudan.
I made the following points: The United States has supported the position by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to serve an arrest warrant on President Bashir of Sudan for committing crimes against humanity. At the same time, it puts the United States in a strange position since it never signed the ICC agreement. Serving of the warrant may well worsen the situation in Darfur and even impact adversely implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement that ended the war between northern and southern Sudan. Interestingly, the coalition of evangelicals, liberals, human rights activists, and others who have supported this action against Bashir recently experienced a dissenting view from one of their own. The Reverend Franklin Graham wrote an oped in the March 3 issue of The New York Times that called on the international community to put peace in Sudan ahead of justice. Graham argued that Bashir's arrest could threaten the south's elections and referendum and hurl the country back into civil war.Hopefully, Al Jazeera will post the video clip on its YouTube channel. If and when it does so, I will embed the video here. Image: Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashirat the 20th session of The New Partnership for Africa's Development in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Jan. 31, 2009. Source: U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jesse B. Awalt/Released, via Wikipedia.
