A crocodile has killed a Protestant pastor who was baptising followers near a lake in southern Ethiopia.
Docho Eshete was conducting the ceremony for about 80 people on Sunday morning at Lake Abaya in Arba Minch town's Merkeb Tabya district.
Residents and police told BBC Amharic a crocodile leapt from the water during the baptism and attacked him.
Pastor Docho died after being bitten on his legs, back and hands.
"He baptised the first person and he passed on to another one. All of a sudden, a crocodile jumped out of the lake and grabbed the pastor," local resident Ketema Kairo told the BBC.
Despite huge efforts, fishermen and residents could not save pastor Docho, policeman Eiwnetu Kanko said.
They used fishing nets to prevent the crocodile from taking the pastor's body into the lake.
The crocodile escaped.
Poster Comment:
#1: Liberator To: Willie Green (#0)
"WHERE WUZ YOUR GOD??! See? He really doesn't care about you."
GOT IT.
Liberator posted on 2018-06-05 10:00:09 Reply Private Reply
#2: sneakypete To: Willie Green (#0)
BTW,you KNOW people are lazy when they have had firearms for a couple of hundred years,and crocks are still eating their children.
Not to mention they still don't have running water and have to bathe and wash their clothes in water with crocs swimming in it.
sneakypete posted on 2018-06-05 10:24:42 Reply Private Reply
#3: Hondo68 To: Willie Green (#0)
The power of prayer, just what the Catholics had been praying for.
Hondo68 posted on 2018-06-05 13:01:18 Reply Private Reply
#4: Vicomte13 To: hondo68 (#3)
So this is the Catholics' fault too?
Vicomte13 posted on 2018-06-05 13:47:54 Reply Private Reply
#5: rlk To: Willie Green (#0)
That's what crocodiles do for a living. God doesn't interfere with it.
rlk posted on 2018-06-05 23:43:04 Reply Private Reply
#6: redleghunter To: hondo68 (#3)
The man died performing his ministerial calling.
Yet you pine away for another Inquisition.
redleghunter posted on 2018-06-06 00:15:57 Reply Private Reply
#7: redleghunter To: Willie Green (#0)
redleghunter posted on 2018-06-06 02:17:18 Reply Private Reply
#8: Hondo68 To: Vicomte13 (#4)
It wasn't a Catholic croc. It's God's call.
Clergy eaten by crocs:
Catholic - 0
Protestant - 1
Hondo68 posted on 2018-06-06 02:27:13 Reply Private Reply
#9: A Pole To: redleghunter (#7)
Converts from Islam or converts from the ancient Ethiopian Church?
The first requires a lot of courage, the second requires some material gifts as people there are very poor.
A Pole posted on 2018-06-06 02:33:29 Reply Private Reply
#10: Liberator To: redleghunter, Willie Green (#7)
It really is shameful.
Liberator posted on 2018-06-06 11:26:06 Reply Private Reply
#11: Liberator To: redleghunter, hondo68 (#6)
Unfortunately, Hondo is extremely misguided and has issues. No real Catholic familiar with the Gospel would celebrate this terrible event.
Edifying and encouraging instead of wasting time tearing down is a *better* option, Hondo.
Liberator posted on 2018-06-06 11:31:04 Reply Private Reply
#12: Hondo68 To: Liberator, redleghunter, not called by God to be eaten by croc (#11)
At least I'm not cheering it on as a "ministerial calling".
Let me state the obvious for you twos benefit - find some water without crocs for your religious events!
You won't find anything in the Bible about groups jumping into a suicidal situation, and God will save you. This guy is not a lot different from a Islamic belt bomber, he's headed to commit suicide, and take lots of people with him.
No 72 virgins await this prot numbskull.
Hondo68 posted on 2018-06-06 14:09:40 Reply Private Reply
#13: Willie Green To: Liberator, redleghunter, hondo68 (#11)
Willie Green posted on 2018-06-06 15:50:08 Reply Private Reply
#14: Tooconservative To: hondo68, redleghunter (#12)
Daniel in the lion's den.
Meshach, Shadrach, and Abednego.
Etc.
You should have stayed awake in Sunday school.
Tooconservative posted on 2018-06-06 17:02:01 Reply Private Reply
#15: Hondo68 To: Tooconservative (#14)
Daniel didn't voluntarily to go into the lion's den.
God didn't close the jaws of the croc for this dopey minister. Why's that?
By the grace of God, no one else in the water was killed.
Hondo68 posted on 2018-06-06 18:41:47 Reply Private Reply
#16: Tooconservative To: hondo68 (#15)
Sounded to me like you were disappointed there weren't more deaths.
Tooconservative posted on 2018-06-06 19:14:45 Reply Private Reply
#17: Hondo68 To: Tooconservative (#16)
I'm delighted that they were spared and given the opportunity to repent and seek out a pro-life church.
I wonder how many that pastor converted to Catholicism with his crocodile stunt? Pope Francis might even write up a paper on the parable of the pastor and the croc, who knows.
Pope Francis does Ethiopia - Pope Francis with Eritrean and Ethiopian Bishops – L’Osservatore Romano
A New Diocese for Ethiopia and a New Metropolitan for Eritrea
January 20, 2015 -- The Holy Father, Pope Francis has erected a new Diocese in Ethiopia which will be known as the Diocese of Bahir Dar – Dessie. In another development, Pope Francis has also erected the Metropolitan Church of Asmara in Eritrea.The new diocese in Ethiopia has joined together the two districts of Bahir Dar and Dessie. The new diocese or eparchy will have as its new Bishop, Lisane-Christos Matheos. Until his appointment today, Bishop Matheos has been the Auxiliary Bishop of Addis Ababa.
The new Bishop of Bahir Dar – Dessie, Lisane-Christos Matheos was born in 1959 in Addis Ababa. He was ordained priest in 1988 and holds a degree in spirituality from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome. The headquarters of the new diocese will be in Bahir Dar.
Hondo68 posted on 2018-06-06 20:05:00 Reply Private Reply
#18: Tooconservative To: hondo68 (#17)
Tooconservative posted on 2018-06-06 20:21:15 Reply Private Reply
#19: goldilucky To: hondo68 (#15)
goldilucky posted on 2018-06-07 22:38:25 Reply Private Reply