International Christian Concern...
... reports that in Ethiopia:
"10,000 Christian families flee homes.
"69 churches burned ...
"46 of them Pentecostal ..."
Snippet from The Catholic World Report, May 2011.
"Muslim extremists have burned down 69 Protestant churches -- 46 of them Pentecostal -- in southwestern Ethiopia.
"The violence started in the town of Asendabo following reports that the Qur'an was being flushed down the toilet at one of the churches.
"Thirty homes, a school, and an orphanage have also been burned down; the number of Christians who have fled their homes has risen to 10,000, according to International Christian Concern, a human rights organization that assists victims of persecution.
"Just 1 percent of the nation's 79.2 million people are Catholic, according to Vatican statistics; 50 percent are Oriental Orthodox, 10 percent are Protestant, and 33 percent are Muslim..."
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