MAY 15, 2019
For the last six months, the Adventist Church in Burundi has been at loggerheads with the government of Burundi. The church accuses the governement of interference in its matters.
This repression led Ted Wilson (above pictured), the head of the World Church of the Seventh Day Adventists, to announce that his ‘sheep are undergoing harsh treatment’ in Burundi. Ted Wilson said it in a video he posted on his Facebook page on May 13, 2019.
“Religious Liberty Violations Continue in Burundi. The violation of Religious Liberty against the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Burundi continues. Please keep praying about this situation“, Ted Wilson wrote on Facebook.
Ted Wilson says in the video that ‘the members of the Adventist church have joined together to pray for their members in Burundi and 22 church leaders who have recently been suspended and arrested by the government Burundi’.
Wilson says that the repression against the Adventist church in Burundi ‘has been decreed by the government for its last six months’ interference in the church’.
‘The church leader calls on all members to pray for their fellow ‘sheep’ in Burundi’
At the announcement was made on the 13th of May 2019, Wilson asked all the Adventist Church members ‘to intercede in their behalf before God’.
He asked all Seventh-day Adventists to pray for their fellow citizens in Burundi, that there may be freedom of religion in the country, and our friends who are imprisoned in this country to be released.
“I call on all Seventh-day Adventists to pray for our church members in Burundi, for religious liberty in that country, and for the release of all those improperly imprisoned Seventh-day Adventists. Please pray until we see God’s mighty hand changing this dire situation in Burundi.”, Ted Wilson was reported by an Adventist website.
Among those in prison is Lamec Barishinga, who was recently elected to lead the church in Burundi on November 11, 2018.
‘Religion and politics mixed together’.
In the meantime, the leadership of Burundi did not accept the changes in the election of the leaders of the church but continued to support its former representative, Ted Wilson continued in his online video.
Ganoune Diop representing of the Adventist Church paid recently visited Burundi and talked with authorities over the plight his church’s members are facing. He said that he noted some challenges for his members.
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The violation of religious liberty against the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Burundi continues. Watch my video statement on Facebook, and please keep praying about this situation. https://www.facebook.com/221442104578356/posts/2142951942427353?s=724502989&v=e&sfns=mo … #Pray4Burundi #AdventistsinBurundi #Burundi
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He said that the arrest of these officials is a clear indication that the Burundi government is deeply involved in the practices of this church.
” Burundi is violating the law in regards to human rights, the Adventist church in Burundi has over 186 000 members”, he said.
Ted Wilson calls on the international community to help him to get the Adventist church members arrested in Burundi released.
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