Ethiopia: He Wrote "Jesus Is Lord" in Muslim's Koran

Christian Jailed in Ethiopia Accused of Desecrating Koran

Constitution flouted as he is jailed for two months in Muslim area without court appearance.

Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010 Posted: 12:29:54AM
NAIROBI, Kenya (Compass Direct News) – A Christian in Ethiopia’s southern town of Moyale has been languishing in jail for two months after his Muslim business partner accused him of writing “Jesus is Lord” in a copy of the Quran, local church leaders said.

Tamirat Woldegorgis, a member of the Full Gospel Church in his early 30s, was arrested in early August after the Muslim co-worker in the clothes-making business the two operated out of a rented home discovered Woldegorgis had inscribed “Jesus is Lord” on some cloth, area Christians said.

Woldegorgis returned from a break one morning to find that the inscribed words had been cut out of the piece of cloth, the sources said. He then had the words set in the machinery of their tailoring business for inscription on clothing material, only to find later that the inscribed plates were removed from the machinery as well, they said.