Abe Abraham I never expected you to make incoherent arguments. At one point, you continue to tell us that you have a cousin as president, and now, you are all of sudden, accusing his administration of serious misconduct against a specific group in Eritrean society. In your argument you give an impression of a tigrain than any Eritrean I know. Victimhood advocacy is a sign of weakness not strength.
But for clarification sake, yes the Eritrean government committed a gross crime against the Eritrean Orthodox Church when it arrested its Patriarch without due law in utter disrespect against church laws and traditions and above all its followers.
But the blame goes entirely to the members of the synod who allowed the Security Agency intelligence services to meddle in the business of the church against church laws and traditions and a gross betrayals against the church and its followers.
Why on earth would a Director of the National Security Agency intelligence services goes to a church and asks the Patriarch to be taken away from the meeting. No where except in Eritrea.
And the mean reason why the patriarch was chosen to be sidelined and even to be arrested is as follows.
The bay-laws of the church was ratified and unanimously endorsed back in 1996. The first patriarch that was unanimously chosen to be the first Eritrean Patriarch was Abune Philipos. The second Patriarch Abune Yacob was also chosen unanimously in 2002 and like wise the third Patriarch Abune Antonios was chosen unanimously in 2004.
The bylaws that was endorsed in 1996 explicitly stated that appointed administrators of the church would be members of the synod and would be handpicked by the Patriarch and get endorsed by the synod. It is this practice that the government wanted to be changed and Abune Antonios strongly opposed that change.
Back in 2002 the government headed by Yoftahe Dimetros started to change the baylaw that regulate the administrator instead of two to be one. And the only requirement needed to hold that position would be experience in administration and knowledge in languages. The backlash started when they asked the endorsement of the changed bylaws in the synod. Abune Antonios opposed the changes but he didn't got majority of the vote in the synod. So he decided to forbad any change in the bylaws until scholars of the church finish studying the changes and see if the changes are applicable with the laws and traditions of the church or not. The rest is history. All the lies and character assassinations that followed to bury the truth was not successful.
God gave him a chance to tell his people the truth before he finished his service on earth. As he said is it eloquently “I never became a monk to be a patriarch but to get eternal life.” And Eternal life is what he will get exactly as all saints before him has already got. His history as all saints will be a living history for all generations to come and an ecellent and good example for many to follow.
Those who should be felt sorry for are those who compromised their values about the laws of God and church laws. Those who can not save themselves can not possibly save others either. But the story of Abune Antonious will not end here but when God and situations allows it. The truth will shine as a sun and our beloved father will be officially declared a saint by the church as well as those Eritreans in Libya who were throutslited by Antichrist forces for their belief.
. where is the agame teret teret now days. you bxxtches used to belittle the ordeal of the nobility of northern men but now days, you are no where to be found. this is what i call poetic Justice.