Are they suffering for the name of Jesus Christ (Matthew 24:9) or in
ignorance for serving the watchtower? They could be under the curse of God
for preaching a false good news. Galations 1:8-9.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1045872,00.html
Eritrean children locked up for having Bibles, says Amnesty. Eritrea
has locked up dozens of children in metal shipping containers at a
military base as punishment for possessing Bibles, Amnesty
International said yesterday.
The authorities in the east African country are persecuting a
minority Christian church by subjecting 27 girls and 30 boys to
"cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment", it said. The children have
been denied proper food and medical care, and are being held in
unventilated, overcrowded and extremely hot conditions while
undergoing a compulsory "education" course at the Sawa military camp
in western Eritrea, Amnesty said. The children, arrested last August
in different parts of the country after being found with Bibles in the
Tigrinya language, were described as prisoners of conscience who have
been promised freedom if they join the majority Eritrean Orthodox
Church. "These girls and boys are being held in horrendous conditions
merely for their religious beliefs," said Stephen Bowen, Amnesty
International UK's campaigns director. Amnesty said its claims were
based on sources inside Eritrea which could not be identified for
their own safety. The government cracked down on minority churches
last year, demanding that they register and reveal any foreign
funding, in an apparent effort to crush the evangelical revival
movement lest it become a focus of dissent. Several hundred people
were arrested earlier this year, including 80 military conscripts who
could face the same fate as three Jehovah's Witnesses, who have been
detained for nine years for refusing military service on religious
grounds. Once a province of Ethiopia, Eritrea proclaimed independence
in 1993 and has been ruled as a one-party state ever since by the
Popular Front for Democracy and Justice. The New York-based Human
Rights Watch yesterday also called for the release of political
prisoners in Eritrea. On Thursday the French-based human rights
organisation, Reporters without Frontiers, appealed for the release of
at least 14 jailed journalists. Eritrea was the biggest prison for
journalists in Africa.
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