Fighting in Tigray, a semi-autonomous state in northern Ethiopia, resulted in massacres at ancient religious sites as the country’s military battled the forces of the ruling party in the state, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front.
The jagged rock spires and steep mountains of the Tigray region in northern Ethiopia are home to some of the oldest churches in the world. Against that historic backdrop, forces loyal to the central government in Addis Ababa have pushed toward the regional capital, Mekele,
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In Ethiopia, evangelicalism is growing at a faster rate than even the booming general population, already the second-largest in Africa and projected to exceed 112 million people by 2020.
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