WASHINGTON TIMES - “America should not ignore the Christian genocide in Ethiopia!”
Posted: 10 Nov 2025, 19:11
America should not ignore the Christian genocide in Ethiopia
Silence in the face of atrocity is complicity
Christian genocide in Ethiopia illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
By Robert Wilkie
Monday, November 10, 2025
OPINION:
The world said “Never again” after Rwanda, yet we’re watching in silence as ancient Christianity is erased in Ethiopia. America risks its soul and security by doing nothing.
In northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region, more than 1 million people have been slaughtered since 2020. Women and children are starved to death. Entire villages have been erased. Soldiers have told rape victims, “A Tigray womb should never give birth.” That statement alone should remove any doubt about what this is. It is not a civil conflict. It is genocide: a state-sponsored attempt to destroy a Christian people and their culture.
Tigray is not a footnote in history. It is the cradle of African Christianity, the land of the Queen of Sheba, the Kingdom of Axum and the Ark of the Covenant. Its rock-hewn churches, older than many European cathedrals, are among the holiest sites in the world. Today, those sanctuaries lie in ruins, deliberately shelled by Ethiopian and Eritrean forces. Priests and worshippers have been executed, and ancient manuscripts and crosses, stolen from monasteries, have been surfacing on online marketplaces.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/20 ... -ethiopia/
Silence in the face of atrocity is complicity
Christian genocide in Ethiopia illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times
By Robert Wilkie
Monday, November 10, 2025
OPINION:
The world said “Never again” after Rwanda, yet we’re watching in silence as ancient Christianity is erased in Ethiopia. America risks its soul and security by doing nothing.
In northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region, more than 1 million people have been slaughtered since 2020. Women and children are starved to death. Entire villages have been erased. Soldiers have told rape victims, “A Tigray womb should never give birth.” That statement alone should remove any doubt about what this is. It is not a civil conflict. It is genocide: a state-sponsored attempt to destroy a Christian people and their culture.
Tigray is not a footnote in history. It is the cradle of African Christianity, the land of the Queen of Sheba, the Kingdom of Axum and the Ark of the Covenant. Its rock-hewn churches, older than many European cathedrals, are among the holiest sites in the world. Today, those sanctuaries lie in ruins, deliberately shelled by Ethiopian and Eritrean forces. Priests and worshippers have been executed, and ancient manuscripts and crosses, stolen from monasteries, have been surfacing on online marketplaces.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/20 ... -ethiopia/