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LOS ANGELES, August 27 (Compass) -- Fifty-seven teenage Eritrean Christians jailed last week under severe punishment for having Bibles at the Sawa Military Training Camp remain locked in metal shipping containers.
Five of the 11th grade students were released a week after their arrest when they signed an agreement to deny their evangelical beliefs and return to the Orthodox Church.
Meanwhile, another 10 Protestants from several independent denominations were arrested in the Red Sea port city of Massawa by local police on August 24.
The latest Sawa and Massawa arrests bring the total number of evangelical Christians in Eritrea known to be imprisoned for their faith to 218.
LOS ANGELES, August 27 (Compass) -- Fifty-seven teenage Eritrean Christians jailed last week under severe punishment for having Bibles at the Sawa Military Training Camp remain locked in metal shipping containers.
Five of the 11th grade students were released a week after their arrest when they signed an agreement to deny their evangelical beliefs and return to the Orthodox Church.
Meanwhile, another 10 Protestants from several independent denominations were arrested in the Red Sea port city of Massawa by local police on August 24.
The latest Sawa and Massawa arrests bring the total number of evangelical Christians in Eritrea known to be imprisoned for their faith to 218.
