7. What stirring examples of integrity are reported from Ethiopia?

⁷ Jehovah’s Witnesses in Ethiopia provided a stirring example of integrity between 1974 and 1991. One of the politically minded captors told an imprisoned brother: “Better to release the lions from the zoo than to let you people go free again!” These cruel persecutors tortured Jehovah’s servants, and after some years an appeal court ordered executions. The body of one brother was put on public display as a warning example. Other brothers who appealed the death sentence were released by a more liberal court, and some of these faithful ‘conquerors’ had parts on the program at the “Divine Teaching” District Convention in Addis Ababa early in 1994.a​—John 16:33; compare 1 Corinthians 4:9.

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In Ethiopia, Meswat and Yoalan now serve Jehovah full-time after the example of their father, who was executed