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👉 Courtesy: The Irish News, December 09, 2025
A Dublin-trained bishop in Ethiopia has told the Irish News how civil war has put his country through “hell on earth.”
Bishop Tesfasellassie Medhin, of the Ethiopian Catholic Eparchy of Adigrat in Ethiopia, studied with the Jesuits in Dublin during the 1980s and returned to Ireland for a visit this year.
At his office in Adigrat Catholic Church, located in the vast mountain range in the northern Tigray region of Ethiopia, pictures on the wall show him shaking hands with three Popes - Benedict, Francis and Leo.
Happily namechecking Irish placenames from Maynooth to Randalstown and Kircubbin, he speaks fondly of the longstanding bond between his country and Ireland, including decades of support from NGOs like Trócaire.
With Tigray devastated by the civil war between 2020-22, Bishop Medhin speaks with a quiet anger at the harm the conflict is still causing.
“The Tigray population have been through hell on earth,” he said.
“If people can name it, it’s a genocide at best…in a country where over a million lives are lost and a horrific number of gender violence and mutilated young people, people destroyed as families, infrastructure, economic resources.”
He describes one personal experience where Eritrean soldiers came to forcibly remove him from the church and how his priests tried to surround him in protection.
The Tigray War saw the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) in conflict with the Ethiopian Federal Government and Eritrean forces, which he describes as like a siege from all sides.
“Absolute closure, (it) was like ‘is this really a human experience?’”
He shares a painting from a young church member, depicting a priest standing between civilians and soldiers while jets drop bombs overhead.
“You see all kinds of things used on people, by land and by air. The church has to be in the middle of all this,” he said.
“We suffered, we couldn’t realise our plans. But still, by the grace of God and where it was possible by our partner’s support and solidarity, that we could be between the killers and the population.
“To try to calm and stop further blood flow…so this image shows the double role of the church in such crisis.”
He also calls it “unacceptable” that half of the children in Tigray have not been able to return to school.
“There’s still 1.3 million children not back to school yet, including our own Catholic schools,” he said.
“Over five years, this is an unacceptable crime about God given rights of people to education.”
Asking why the world stays quiet in the face of such injustice and violence, he adds: “It can only stop if there are pressures on policy makers. In the Catholic church we want to stand for justice.
“A wounded society cannot get healing unless there’s a recognition of what has happened.
“If that’s blocked, people can only carry their pain…we are trembling to live like this.”
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