Ethiopian Christians living in a refugee camp in Sudan have marked Coptic Christmas in exile, desperately praying to be reunited with loved ones and return to their conflict-hit home.
Priests carrying wooden crosses led a night-time mass at the Jibreel (Gabriel) church, a hastily converted building in Um Raquba camp near Sudan’s eastern border. Worshippers flocked in and out of the building to attend the prayers, which lasted into the early hours of Thursday morning.
They lit candles, sang solemn hymns and spent hours praying that they would find loved ones who went missing in the conflict that has rocked Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region since early November.
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