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Eritrea - The Country's Last Catholic Hospital Closed With Force
Agenzia Fides ^ | 7/6/19

Posted on 07/11/2019 6:26:55 PM PDT by marshmallow

Asmara (Agenzia Fides) - In Eritrea, even the last Catholic hospital has been closed. On Friday 5 July, the nuns who ran the facility in Zager were forcibly taken away by the police and seals were placed on the doors. The nuns were told to leave the hospital immediately and were prevented from taking hospital equipment with them. The hospital provided maternity services and general medical assistance for the village of Zager some thirty kilometers from the capital, Asmara.

In recent weeks, 22 Catholic hospitals and clinics have been closed. Some observers read in this wave of requisitions a response of the regime of Isayas Afeworki to the criticism of the Church towards its government. In their pastoral letters, Catholic bishops have called for profound political reforms in the Country that currently has no constitution and has never organized presidential and legislative elections.

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TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: afeworki; eplf; eritrea; hornofafrica; isayasafeworki; pfdj; tigrinya

1 posted on 07/11/2019 6:26:55 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

An african nation...


2 posted on 07/11/2019 6:29:25 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: marshmallow

Knock yourselves out, you stupid asswipes.


3 posted on 07/11/2019 6:33:33 PM PDT by QBFimi (It is not your responsibility to finish the work of perfecting the world... Tarfon)
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To: marshmallow
This is so brutal. God bless and protect the beautiful Eritrean people. Protect the needy and the poor. What czn we do but pray?

Tagline.

4 posted on 07/11/2019 6:36:25 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("He shall defend the needy, He shall save the children of the poor, and crush the oppressor.")
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To: marshmallow

“The Country that currently has no constitution and has never organized presidential and legislative elections.“

Democracy is overrated. Leave them alone to find their own way.

And build the damn wall.


5 posted on 07/11/2019 6:38:38 PM PDT by Jim Noble (1)
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To: marshmallow

“In their pastoral letters, Catholic bishops have called for profound political reforms in the Country that currently has no constitution and has never organized presidential and legislative elections.”

For heaven’s sake, it’s Africa. What do you expect?


6 posted on 07/11/2019 6:44:32 PM PDT by SharpRightTurn (Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
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To: SharpRightTurn
called for profound political reforms

Call for reforms all you want as Islam converts by the hand of death and fills the ever widening Christian void.

7 posted on 07/11/2019 6:53:50 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: marshmallow

During the past few years I’ve met a couple of Christians from Eritrea.

I’m so glad they immigrated to the America. Conservative and the salt of the earth.


8 posted on 07/11/2019 6:58:41 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: lizma2

My boss is from Eritrea, wonderful man who raised a wonderful family. He can’t go back there because he’d be arrested for refusing to fight for the current dictator who once promised the people everything but when in power he provided nothing except misery.

When my boss got here they tried to put him on welfare and give him a job as a dishwasher because washing dishes had such low pay it wouldn’t stop his welfare. He refused and worked up to 3 jobs and got a degree. He said that 30 years later there are still people doing the dish washing and taking taking welfare. This is job security for the bureaucrat and misery for the welfare recipient.


9 posted on 07/11/2019 7:10:26 PM PDT by Aria
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Save your prayers for Ethiopia, one of the oldest surviving nations. Eritrea is a breakaway Muslim area and has been infiltrated with foreign Muslims.


10 posted on 07/11/2019 7:40:37 PM PDT by Fhios
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To: Aria

The permanent underclass are bipedal livestock for elites; God bless him for making his own way.


11 posted on 07/11/2019 7:52:09 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Fhios

Then wouldn’t they need prayers more?


12 posted on 07/11/2019 7:56:43 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("He shall defend the needy, He shall save the children of the poor, and crush the oppressor.")
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To: marshmallow

I worked with with an Eritrean years ago. He had a dream of going back and making a difference there. He ended up staying here and became a proud American. The constant war caused him to give up on his dream of a peaceful Eritrea.


13 posted on 07/12/2019 12:03:37 AM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

its like Haiti.....we’d all like to help but with no sound govt charity is just washed down the gutter....


14 posted on 07/12/2019 12:14:15 AM PDT by cherry
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To: shanover

The Muslims by what they do, is planting the seeds of future,new Christians.


15 posted on 07/12/2019 10:51:25 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Fhios

Rather,pray that Ethiopia stays strong,and pray for more Muslims to come to faith in Christ the Savior.


16 posted on 07/12/2019 10:55:16 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: All

“The blood of Christians is the seeds of new Christians”.


17 posted on 07/12/2019 10:59:00 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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