Over 200 Eritrean Christians
Captured & Detained in New Persecutions
Posted: Monday, October 10 , 2005, 11:30 (UK)

Over two hundred Christian Eritrean evangelicals and members of minority churches have been captured and detained, according to Release Eritrea.

The operation which was carried out by Eritrean security forces is said to have been the worst of its kind thus far, with having been detained without their whereabouts being known.

Email sources indicated that the development project of Kalehiwet Church has been shut down, according to Release Eritrea. The development project is responsible for projects across the country with emergency aid and feeding programmes. But it was forcibly shut by Eritrean security forces on 3 October.

The whole team of staff, including all administrative staff, drivers and secretaries, have all been detained for the past week. The general secretary of the project Mr Ukbay, his administrator Mr Ghebre Michael and many others have been detained. Story