This Wikipedia article records that Eritrea officially recognizes only four religious communities, the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Roman Catholic Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Eritrea and Sunni Islam, and that Proclamation No. 73/1995 requires every other faith to seek government registration while in practice denying it. It documents the government's revocation of Jehovah's Witnesses' business licenses on 25 October 1994 over their refusal to recognize government authority, barring the group from government identity documents, employment, business licensing and legally recognized marriage, and states that dozens of Jehovah's Witnesses remain imprisoned, some without formal charge since 1994.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion_in_Eritrea
Source Typeencyclopedia
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Reliability Tier3
A crowd sourced encyclopedia article used here for a registration policy and a specific ban (Proclamation No. 73/1995, the 1994 revocation of Jehovah's Witnesses' business licenses), independently corroborated by the same policy's well documented coverage in State Department and human rights reporting, hence the lowest tier rather than exclusion. Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names Eritrea directly: "This Wikipedia article records that Eritrea officially recognizes only four religious communities, the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church, the Roman Catholic Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church..."
This source names Jehovah's Witnesses directly: "It documents the government's revocation of Jehovah's Witnesses' business licenses on 25 October 1994 over their refusal to recognize government authority, barring the group from government identity..."
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