“The situation is heartbreaking and painful,” said Yishak Yohanes Dera, president of the South Ethiopia Synod of the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (Place of Jesus). “The situation is expected to worsen,” he told CT. “During this lean period, more animals are expected to die. In Yavelo town, congregants collected 120,000 birr ($2,341) during a single Sunday service to help with relief efforts. The Ethiopian Evangelical Church works there too, and in the neighboring Amhara region, to help internally displaced people, according to Abeya Wakwaya, a commissioner for the church’s humanitarian organization. He said the church was originally founded more than a century ago to preach the gospel and meet the material needs of people in Ethiopia.

Source: Ethiopian News March 03, 2022 18:41 UTC