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The Holy Synod expresses sadness over the kangaroo court’s guilty verdict

Posted on by Elias Kifle

Ethiopian Review
June 13, 2007

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church’s (EOTC) Holy Synod issued a statement strongly denouncing the court verdict on Monday, June 11, against opposition leaders in Ethiopia as “an injustice and an obstacle to peace.”

The Holy Synod’s stated that the charges against the opposition leaders, journalists and humanitarians had been “fabricated” and the trial had been secretive and unfair. It added that the Holy Synod’s position in this regard is supported by governments and organizations around the world.

Read the full statement here (Amharic, pdf)

9 thoughts on “The Holy Synod expresses sadness over the kangaroo court’s guilty verdict”

  1. it is about time the church said something about this hidious government. i was very disapointed when the church said nothing when the june mascar occured last year. keep standing with people of Ethiopia because we have nothing but GOD.

  2. We have to go back home and fight the Evils to death that is what our God can expect from us to do the least.God loves ethiopia and its people.

  4. This is the Holy Synod in Exile who gave the anouncement. I bet the one in Addis (Aba Gebremedhin) clap his hands and opened a champagne after hearing the verdict. He will rot in hell…washing his hands in the blood of Ethiopians.
    God bless Ethiopia

  5. Everybody, including the church, cannot sit idle when tyrants make a mockery of justice by dehumanizing Ethiopia’s leaders legitimately elected by 28 million strong on May 15, 2007. It is courageous for the Holy Synod to take this position and shows the Ethiopian Othodox Church for the first time is playing the role played by the late Pope John Paul of the Catholic church whose unwavering position on communism was the final death blow for its eventual demise. Meles may be acting with impunity now, but a day will come when he will have to regret this impunity and pay a price for not heeding the call of people for peace and democracy!! Thanks Holy Synod for showing us the way!

  7. Thank you the holy synod in diaspora for being consious of ethiopians and for showing us the way the church should go. Shame for those who call them selves as neutal church. You need to have stand either with woyane or with people. Dr akiliu DC st mary have shame on you. please rise up from your fall

  8. please see your self befor you critisied the others if you say the exile synod is Legal you are an eviel person the exile synode is The Refominist and trying Displace the Orginal Church
    Thank You so much
    Ewunetu

  9. by The way iam not a supoter of the Dectator and Kiler weyane i hate weyane morthan Satnael Or Devel but who is perfecet who was Honest we know every thing about Ethiopian Orthodox in Ethiopian Orthodox History Deosen’t Have patriarck Beyond ABune Tekleahyimanot That If you say some thing about Abune Merikoriyos you are wrong
    Thank You so much
    God bless you

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