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ERITREA
Sisters who chose Christ over freedom
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Eritrean Christian Aster lives with the memory not only of being tortured for her faith – but
of her sister being beaten to death. Now she feels able to tell her story and share how, as
a follower of Christ, she views her sufferings. Kenneth Harrod reports
ign a piece of paper. That’s all it would have taken. But Aster and her twin sister Azieb refused
to do so – and paid a terrible price. Both had been arrested for being part of a Christian gathering. Signing a document to renounce their faith would have meant freedom. ‘For my sister and I it wasn’t a temptation! It
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