Did you read the article: The school children are being pressurised to sign statements to abandon their religion and rejoin the majority Eritean Orthodox Church. I'm wondering if this is the official majority Christian Church that the government requires Christians to belong to. As I understand it, the Eritrean government ordered the closing of all Christian churches other than the Coptic Orthodox, and several Catholic and Evangelical Lutheran parishes. This following from their fragile independence from Ethiopia. I wondering if the Eritrean population is probably majority Muslim and Animist as in the Sudan.
It is very interesting, the link between Orthodox Christian and Islam. There are some ties there which I do not fully understand. I was only made aware of it recently when my inlaws joined the Orthodox church and suddenly became pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel. (I was very surprised but I have seen more and more evidence since then.)
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