Posted on 02/21/2021 11:27:07 PM PST by Libloather
At least 800 people were reportedly killed in Ethiopia as worshippers and soldiers risked their lives to protect what Christians there say is the sacred Ark of the Covenant from local militia.
Ethiopian Christians claim the Ark - the wooden chest built to hold the Ten Commandments of Moses - is being kept safe in a chapel in the holy northern city of Axum in the Tigray region.
The battle between Ethiopian soldiers and rebel fighters happened in the fall, The Sunday Times reported, but it is only being reported now.
“When people heard the shooting they ran to the church to give support to the priests and others who were there protecting the ark,” Getu Mak, a local university lecturer, told The Times.
“Certainly some of them were killed for doing that.”
Little was known about the deadly siege since Tigray is cut off from the world and journalists had been blocked from entering the region.
A deacon residing in Axum told the Associated Press he helped count the bodies, gathered victims’ identification cards and assisted with burials in mass graves.
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You beat me to it with the movie clip. They couldn’t handle the truth!
IIRC, the 'rebels' are just muslims doing what muslims do, which is kill, rape and pillage.
Sounds like a rapper.
God is everywhere , omnipresent
But I get your drift.
There were/are very specific and strict rules for everything relating to the Ark of God.
I don’t know.
It doesn’t seem very likely.
Whether it is or ever was is of less import than the fact that all those people were slaughtered, good, gentle Christians, all of them.
It breaks my heart.
I have seen quite a few shows where someone went there and visited them, investigating their story.
They were gentle, harmless people.
Doesn’t it belong to the Jews?
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