Eritrea is a country
located around the horn of Africa, bordered to the west by Sudan and to the south by Ethiopia.
Eritrea has a population of about 6 million people.
Reports claim that the highest
ranking official in religious law in Eritrea known as the grand mufti has
ordered that men marry two wives or face a jail sentence. The government is to
fund the marriage ceremony and houses.
Eritrea is a country that
report shows habours more Christians than any other religion. We all know that Christianity
is against polygamy
According to the
government, the order is because there is an acute shortage of men occasioned
by causalities during the civil war with Ethiopia.
Reports
also claim that the document warns that any man or woman who opposes the
decision will face a life sentence.
The report which has been
circulating the net was originally written in Arabic and has been translated
below
READ THE REPORT BELOW
”Based on the law of God in polygamy, and given the
circumstances which the country is experiencing in terms of men shortage, the
Eritrean department of Religious Affairs has decided on the following:
First
that every man shall marry at least two women and the man who refuses to do so
shall be subjected to life imprisonment with hard labour.
The woman who tries to prevent her husband from marrying another
wife shall be punished to life imprisonment.
