When we documented the targeting of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the warning was simple: the pattern was escalating, and it was going unanswered. The months since have confirmed both halves of that sentence. The attacks in the Arsi zone have continued and widened; the response from those with the power to stop them has not come.
What follows is a record of the most recent, independently reported incidents — not a re-statement of the full case, which is set out in our investigation, but the evidence of an unbroken line from our alert to today.
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church's Holy Synod has condemned the killings and named the dead. Ethiopia's Catholic bishops have called for independent investigations. Neither the federal nor the regional government has opened a credible one, prosecuted those responsible, or moved to protect the communities being hit. The silence our investigation described is no longer an absence of attention — it is a choice, repeated.
For the full, sourced background — the clergy killings, the holy sites in the line of fire, and the pattern they form — read our investigation: The oldest faith, the newest target →