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| Harar, where the teenagers are being tried, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site because of its significance in Islam. |
Four Christian teenagers have been arrested in an Ethiopian town after distributing Christian literature.
According to World Watch Monitor, the four – Eden, 15, Gifti and Mihiret, both 14, and Deborah, 18 – were distributing a Christian book in Amharic, Ethiopia's main language, by a local author, entitled: Let's speak the truth in love: Answers to questions by Ahmed Deedat.
The book sets out to answer questions posed by the late South African Islamic scholar and former head of the Islamic Propagation Centre International about the Christian faith. Christians in Babile, around 550 km east of the capital Addis Ababa, decided to distribute it following cross-cultural evangelism training.
However, local Muslims said the book was an insult to Islam and on September 19 a group attacked the Protestant Meserete Kristos Church (MKC), in Babile, damaging its doors and windows.
According to World Watch Monitor, the four – Eden, 15, Gifti and Mihiret, both 14, and Deborah, 18 – were distributing a Christian book in Amharic, Ethiopia's main language, by a local author, entitled: Let's speak the truth in love: Answers to questions by Ahmed Deedat.
The book sets out to answer questions posed by the late South African Islamic scholar and former head of the Islamic Propagation Centre International about the Christian faith. Christians in Babile, around 550 km east of the capital Addis Ababa, decided to distribute it following cross-cultural evangelism training.
However, local Muslims said the book was an insult to Islam and on September 19 a group attacked the Protestant Meserete Kristos Church (MKC), in Babile, damaging its doors and windows.
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