Corpse of Christian Convert's Infant Dug Up

Please keep this young believer in your prayers.  Full story here.

Coffin left at church leader’s door; government falters on promise of land for reburial.

NAIROBI, Kenya, May 27 (Compass Direct News) – A young Christian convert in Ethiopia mourning the sudden death of her baby boy was shocked to learn his body had been dug up and placed at the doorstep of a church leader earlier this month. Members of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church upset at the conversion of the teenage mother to evangelical faith were suspected of the wrongdoing. The crime occurred in Luga, 170 kilometers (105 miles) south of Addis Ababa, after 17-year-old Tsehay Desta, who recently left her Orthodox upbringing in favor of evangelical faith, had traveled there from Asela to visit her mother a month ago. During her stay, her infant boy fell ill and suddenly died on May 9. The next day an evangelical church in Luga held a funeral in which the body was buried on church grounds, but on May 11 it was dug up and left at the church leader’s door. In spite of government promises to resolve the situation, officials offered no burial land, and suspects were released the same day they were arrested. Church leaders trekked 800 kilometers seeking government help to find a burial place, but on May 16 they reburied the body in its former grave – hoping there would be no further incidents.