Adelaide Khavugwi
Tigray Diaspora Inter-Religious Council (TDIRC) are calling on Pope Francis to intervene in the ongoing clashes that seem to be a genocide against the people of Tigray.
In a December 1 letter, TDRIC members said the people of Tigray are “enduring unimaginable atrocities in the hands of the Ethiopian army and its war partners”
“We are quite confident that you will prayerfully consider this crucial matter and do everything you can to stop yet another Rwanda-type genocide from being committed before the eyes of the world,” they said in the statement that was copied to AMECEA, the Apostolic Nuncio in Ethiopia, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), The Ethiopian Catholic Bishops' Conference, Vatican's Secretary of State and the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE).
In the statement that was read out at a meeting for Justice and Peace Coordinators in the AMECEA region, TDRIC members asked the Pope to intervene so that the people of Tigray "get to have interventions that will consider the humanity and sacred life of people."
TDRIC members also request the Holy Father to continue praying for Ethiopia's peace and the persecuted Tigrayans.
They further ask Pope Francis to demand that the Ethiopian government and its allies to "stop ethnic profiling, harassment, discrimination and mass detention in all parts of Ethiopia and release all ethnic Tigrayans and other Ethiopians who are illegally detained.”
