Gudina Tumsa Foundation

GTF is an NGO established in Ethiopia in 1992 by family and friends of the late Reverend Gudina Tumsa to carry on his vision.
The religious persecution and assassinations of the bygone communist regimes of the world are few of the cruelest forms of injustice and human rights violation to be remembered. One of the numerous victims of such an act of a dictatorial regime, at the beginning of the 4th quarter of our century, was the General Secretary of the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, the Reverend Gudina Tumsa. As one Church historian put it "... he was one of the Church pillars Africa ever produced in the 20th century." The life of this charismatic church leader has captured the interests of several writers—some have written books and papers on him while others have dedicated their books to him.