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The Eritrean authorities arrested a large group of mostly elderly women at a prayer meeting in Asmara.

The 30 Christian women, most of whom are members of the evangelical Faith Mission Church, were praying together in a house in the Eritrean capital on December 5 when security forces arrived and took them to a police station.

The women's relatives told sources for the advocacy group, International Christian Concern, that they are deeply worried about loved ones' safety.

The Faith Mission Church has reportedly existed for more than five decades but was forced underground in 2002 when the Government banned all church groups apart from the Orthodox church, the Roman Catholic church and the Lutheran Evangelical church.

(Source: International Christian Concern)

• Pray for the immediate release of these 30 women. Pray that their faith will be strengthened through their ordeal.
• Continue to pray that President Isaias Afewerki and his Government would allow greater religious freedom in Eritrea.

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