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ELCA Leaders Express Concern for Ethiopian Christians Hurt by Attacks

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Date Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:11:02 -0600

Title: ELCA Leaders Express Concern for Ethiopian Christians Hurt by Attacks
ELCA NEWS SERVICE

>March 11, 2011  

ELCA Leaders Express Concern for Ethiopian Christians Hurt by Attacks
11-027-JB

CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
America (ELCA) offered expressions of concern and prayers for a partner
Lutheran church in Africa, the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus,
following a series of attacks and church burnings by Muslim extremists
against Christians. The attacks in western Ethiopia resulted in the death
of a Mekane Yesus member, and at least 12 of the church's buildings in
the region were damaged or destroyed by fire.

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