The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church is not only a faith but a built inheritance — monasteries, rock-hewn churches and parish compounds that anchor entire communities. Between 2024 and 2026, a series of attacks has reached those places themselves: a church entered mid-service, a monastery shelled, a parish church burned to the ground.
This page is a running, sourced inventory of those incidents. It is not a comprehensive census, and it carries no graphic material; it records the attacks that have been independently reported, each entry linked to the international outlet, church statement or human-rights body that documented it. The fuller narrative is set out in our investigation.
01 · The recordDocumented attacks, 2024–2026.
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church's Holy Synod has condemned these killings and named the dead; Ethiopia's Catholic bishops have called for independent investigations. To date, neither the federal nor the regional authorities have opened a credible inquiry or held anyone to account.
02 · Scope & methodWhat this inventory is — and is not.
Each entry above is drawn from a named, independent source and dated as precisely as the reporting allows. Where a figure is contested or provisional, it is given as reported, not as established fact. The inventory is deliberately conservative: it omits incidents we could not source to a credible outlet, and it will be extended as further attacks are verified.
For the most recent developments, see our Arsi field alert →; for the full background — heritage in the crossfire, the clergy targeted, and the wider pattern — read our investigation →.