Eritrean Orthodox leader continues to be detained after a decade
Patriarch Antonios, who is 90 and has diabetes, has been denied medical care.
For a decade, Patriarch Antonios of Eritrea has been detained at an unknown location by the Eritrean government.
Recently, several weeks after the tenth anniversary of his detention, he was seen at a mass but then confined again.
“We now know he is still alive, but our brief hopes for his freedom were dashed by a regime that shows no end to its cruelty,” wrote Thomas J. Reese, a priest and a commissioner on the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, who is advocating for Antonios’s release.
