An outbreak of violence in Ethiopia at the end of October has manifested a worrying new trend in one of the world’s most religious countries, with reports of Christians targeted during the mayhem that left around 80 dead.
Since July 2018, about 30 churches belonging to the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church – the largest of the Oriental Orthodox churches – have been attacked during ethnicity-related strife plaguing the country, according to the Amhara Professional Union, a US-based diaspora organisation.
