Ethiopian refugees at Christmas mass pray for return home

Ethiopian refugees at Christmas mass pray for return home
AFP
1/7/2021
AFP
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Ethiopian refugees from the conflict-hit Tigray region attend Coptic Christmas midnight mass at a church inside Um Raquba camp
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. 

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