America requested the release of Abune Enthoniyos

On Wednesday at a White House meeting with survivors of religious persecutions, one such Eritrean lady appealed to the US government to help free a 90 year old patriarch of the Orthodox church, Abune Antonios, now 12 years in detention. Next day, on Thursday U.S Vice President Mike Pence speaking at a conference on religious freedom at the state department echoed the said request and urged Eritrea ruler, tyrant Isias Aferqi, emphatically to let Abune Antonios go.

Source: AAP