Amidst the controversy between government forces and the separatist group of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigray, the seven nuns who were arrested by the Ethiopian police on 30 November 2021, are released. The Vatican agency Fides reports about the releasing the nuns.
The religious released are the sisters Letemaryam Sibhat, Tiblets Teum, Abeba Tesfay, Zaid Moss, Abeba Hagos, and Abeba Fitwi, from the Congregation of the Daughters of Charity Saint Vincent de Paul.
According to Fides, on Saturday the 15th Sister Abrehet Teserma, from the Ursulines of Gandino, was also released, as confirmed by the cooperator Matteo Palamidesse. This nun has returned to her community in the town of Shola.
Other local sources confirmed to Fides that all the sisters are in good health.
However, there is still no news of two deacons and two nuns from Kobo, who remains in detention along with thousands of other Ethiopians of Tigrin origin, from the Tigray region, whose whereabouts are unknown.