Yes, be angry for the current situation in Ethiopia. Yes, call for protests to force the current political players to be changed. Yes, call for the Ethiopian Diapora to become more involved. Yes, confront Zenawi's delegation and make them accountable for their words and actions. All of these are valid points. But do not involve the Church, any Church in this. Direct your anger accordingly and not to just any- and everyone. Tell people to send their letters to the Consulate and to the Government, not a Church.

Thank you.

Dawit;
You come half way; we need unconditional full apology for the insults and wrong information you posted. If you are genuine enough; come clean and make the wrong-right. You insulted the Board members, chairman, the members, and every one that comes to our church. Your post also resulted in other morons to do the same thing. For your information, church is not a company; what goes in the church is not only the responsibility of the chairperson as you tried to imply in your second post. It is more complicated than that.

You may have realized by now what is wrong in your original post – come clean. You made a mistaken and acted irrationally; then the right thing to do is retract your post entirely and apologize for being the cause of all the insults and degrading the name of our church and peoples who worship at our church.

If I can assume the same Mekdes that I know, I think you are the loneliest person and that is why you spend so much time at church and spend so much time hunting guess for what– men.

You are deep down a Woyane and fake religiously and as a person.

More people will be living the church and people like you, fake and charlatan will be the only one left there.

Have a life and stop dancing with Woyanes. Life is short and live a respectable life.

Medhane Alem should be Woyane Alem if its members as as moronic as they sound in their writing.

By the way, I am glad I don't go to your church. You guys are nothing, but low life using religion in name only.

In addition, most of the answers lack depth and sound childish. Is that the type of people who go to this church.

It appears the members are primarily hodams and low life, who are using the church to advance their interest.

Shame on you.

You sound like a very lonely person with so much free time in your hands and seeking attention in all the wrong places. eventhough, your criticism about D.S.M. of Houston as well as its Board members does not deserve response, I am obligated to defend our beloved church ,that has kept our community together and its Board members that work diligently without any monetary reward. You see, we at D.S.M. orthodox church believe we can co-exist with our fellowmen and worship God peacefully. Politics has no place in the House of God. Get the fact straight .No one invited a politician to speak in front of our congregation.
It is most unfortunate that you had the wrong impression of our church and it's members.,but to make that kind of judgment in a few hours of observation, or by hear-say only shows the level of your immaturity. You were out of your mind , if you expected God fearing people to stop worshping and spill blood on the altar. Hasn't the world suffered enough from the disease of intolerance?
GET ….A…LIFE..

Long live the Medehanialem Church,

I read most of the comments, and I got a call from my nephew, regarding the chairperson. So I withdraw my characterization of him as a Derg cadre. From what I heard from my newphew he was just a regular employee of the Derg like millions of Ethiopians and there is no proof that he was involved in any atrocities. My apologies to the chairperson.

My nephew and I also agreed, that as far as the church, a chairperson is ultimately repsonsible what happens in the church. He could have stood up or made a remark that the speech by the Woyane commissioner/minister was not planned or some thing like that or the unusal nature of the occassion.

This may appear that chairperson is not sensitive enough to the crime and abuse of Woyane and leave the impression that he is willing to work with them.

The bottom line inviting agents of Meles or such high level officials to churches and other vital organs of the community is tantamount to condoning what the government of Meles is doing in Ethiopia. That may be the case for some church leadership, hope that is not the case with the vast majority of Ethiopians in Houston.

Dawit

This opens a pandor box, becuase next time some Hodam will do the same and invite more agents of Meles and justify it.

The tradition is to protest any Woyane in order to put pressure on them to stop destroying the country.

Hope this is the last time that this church acts as a forum or as an accessary to Woyane agents.

If the church is non-political, it should stop associating with Woyane.

The churches action looks like a back door business initiative by some church members.

You think you have the power to destroy this church
Be very careful only God has the power and this is His house.
Many have tired and failed.
We are very proud of our board members. Thank you for the way you handled the situation… See they had to put up with your Ignorant Friends who don’t differentiate the fact from the lies and don’t like to see people live peacefully.
We all should pray for this people and for our church and for our country
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I don’t u understand the meaning of politician. Protesting and opposing the policies of woyane is not being a politician. Asefa Maru was not politician; Professor Asrat was not politician or Shibere Desalegn. Why you guys from Houston keep telling us a word politician. As far as I am concerned, those protesters did not protest to hold a public office. The four million residents of Addis Abeba who came out in support of change 2005 were not politicians. I guess you mixing up the word for purpose or maybe you do not know the meaning.

Ethiopia today ruled under the barrel of the gun by those who hate to see her exist. Ethiopians today are divided along ethnic line as it was during the Italian invasion. Ethiopia is a landlocked country. Her see shore taken away by the group still in power. Ethiopians are living under dictatorship even after they voted out the government they feel is not compatible to Ethiopian nationalism. So to say, your labeling every one who come out in support of human right, democracy, and freedom of speech is inappropriate to say the list.

If you feel Dawit is not telling the truth, present your cases supporting with facts as he did. He said a woyane shum allowed standing in front of Ethiopians inside the church and spoken, if that was a lay tell the truth side, why condemning Dawit without evidence?

For Dawit and the like they do not like to see a functioning institution. When they do see a functioning one, they try to smear the good name of the peoples who built that institution. They do not even attempt to find out the full story; they create lies and make a story to fit their way of thinking and resort to character assassination assuming a screen name. That is an old trick and it does not work here.

Take you politics out of our church; it does not have a place in our church and we do not have the time for it, the members and board do not allow it.

Dawit and the like live in a democratic county with all the privileges, but they try to give prescription to others how to lead an organization. In the name of the love of Ethiopia they try to destroy when their agenda is not center stage.

Shame on you; I am sure you enjoyed the service seating on that comfortable pew. If you are so principled why did you drive more than 3 hours to attend the iFest organized by the government you condemned so much? You are a hypocrite!!!

Dallas did a marvelous job exposing and combating the propagandists and the woyane cadres like that of Hilawi Yosef. I hope those cadres will face the same action from Atlanta Brothers.

If Atlanta brothers need advice, I would tell learn from Dallas. Never allow the cadres to lecture to you. Never wait the chair to give you chance to speak, stand yourself, present a realistic speech that minds our country and our people, never yield any order if they shout to stop you, continue until the other brother take over, do the same make them frustrated. Stay to the end but never allow them to finish any topic you gave them to speak. That way you will fulfill the mission as we did in Dallas in the last two protests.