children, women, and the elderly are paying the highest price.
Little Tamrat, just four years old, was shot three times. Doctors now must amputate his leg to save his life. Sentayehu, only eight, still lies in a hospital bed after surviving both gunfire and a vicious machete blow to the head. Families are fleeing in terror, leaving behind their homes, churches, and memories.
On November 3, 2025, six more innocent lives were taken in Abomsa Village. Yet the Zone Administrator, Ibrahim Kedir, denied the massacre in an interview with BBC Amharic — denying the pain, the bodies, the truth.
For six years, the Oromia Region has become a slaughterhouse for Orthodox Christians. The Prosperity Party’s manifesto brands the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church as an enemy of development — a chilling justification for persecution.
In Shirka District, the horror is beyond words: between September 2023 and September 2024, 115 Orthodox Christians were massacred. 27 people were abducted — vanished without a trace. Out of 37 churches, 16 now stand silent, their doors closed, their congregations scattered.
This is not just violence; it is a campaign of terror. The world must not look away. Justice, protection, and truth are desperately needed now.
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