Ethiopia

Ethiopia: Farewell Archbishop

May 8, 2013 Featured News

7/5/13 The statue of Abune Petros, erected in 1941 in memory of the archbishop of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, moved to its temporary location on Friday, May 02, 2013. The decision to relocate the statue came after the Ethiopian Railway Corporation (ERC) began the construction of the 34Km Addis Light Rail Transit (LRT) project. The [...]

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An Ethiopian Easter: Unexpected wonders of Lalibela and Addis Ababa

March 30, 2013 Featured News

30/3/13 Despite still being blighted by poverty, it is rich in culture and natural wonders and beginning to realise its potential as a tourist destination. A gold-robed deacon stood in front of a makeshift altar at the shadowy heart of the nave, clutching a staff as he led the mournful chanting. Surrounding him was a [...]

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Ethiopia: The First Christian Nation?

March 6, 2013 Featured News

By Brendan Pringle - 6/3/13 For centuries, historians have widely accepted the argument that Armenia was the first Christian nation. This important claim has become a source of national pride for Armenians and has remained virtually undisputed for centuries — until now. Armenians will likely be up at arms when they learn that a new book [...]

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Consecration of Abune Mathias of Ethiopia – Exclusive Snaps

March 5, 2013 Featured News

          OCP News Service 5/3/13 Exclusive Coverage Addis Ababa: His Holiness Abuna Mathias was consecrated as the Sixth Patriarch and Catholicos of Ethiopia, Ichege of the See of St. Tekle Haymanot, Archbishop of Axum enthroned at Addis Ababa on March 3rd Sunday 2013. His Holiness Beslius Paulose II, Catholicos of the [...]

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Hindus Urge New Ethiopian Church Patriarch to Promote Interfaith Dialogue

March 4, 2013 Featured News
Distinguished Hindu Statesman Rajan Zed

4/3/13 Ethiopia is home to one of the world’s greatest Christian religious-historical sites. (RENO) – Congratulating His Holiness Abune Mathias, 71, on his election as the sixth Patriarch of Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church headquartered in Addis Ababa, Hindus hope that he would promote interfaith dialogue in the world. Mathias, who has been serving as the [...]

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Abune Mathias Elected as the new Patriarch of Ethiopia

February 28, 2013 Featured News

  28/2/13 Addis Ababa : Archbishop of  Jerusalem, Abune Mathias is elected as the 6th Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church .Abune Mathias won 500 of the 806 votes. He will be known as 6th Patriarch and Catholicos of Ethiopia, Ichege of the See of St. Tekle Haymanot and Archbishop of Axum. Catholicos of the East [...]

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Ethiopia: Lalibela’s underground churches

February 22, 2013 Featured News

Chris Pritchard 22/2/13 Ruins such as Cambodia’s Angkor Wat and Peru’s Machu Picchu spark intense speculation about how they came to be built – along with unabashed amazement at the ancients’ architectural abilities. Such destinations are firmly on tourist trails, with multitudinous hotels and diverse attractions to complement exploration of the ruins themselves. But Lalibela [...]

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Eritrea: military conscription is killing Church

December 17, 2012 Featured News

December 2012 Military conscription in Eritrea is leaving the Church understaffed – as seminarians and other Church workers are forced to join the army. A source in Eritrea – who requested anonymity, fearing reprisals for speaking out – has told Aid to the Church in Need that “compulsory military service is bleeding the Church in [...]

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SCHOLL: The king and I: from Prisoner to Patriarch

November 23, 2012 Featured News

By Tom Scholl – Special to The Telegraph 21/11/2012 Well, he wasn’t a king, exactly; I stole the title from a Broadway play. He was a patriarch in Orthodox Christianity. There are about 19 patriarchs: Greek, Russian, etc. Each patriarch is revered by all one-half billion Orthodox Christians as Roman Catholics do Pope Benedict XVI. [...]

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The myths and modernity 
of northern Ethiopia

October 12, 2012 Featured News

12/10/2012 Thousands of years of history and some of the most important 
sites in Ethiopian Christianity sit alongside new buildings, roads 
and airports. Northern Ethiopia is beautiful and booming. Opposite the only bank in Lalibela, one of the holiest places in Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, is a small shop selling mattresses, piled up in the dust [...]

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Addis Abeba’s New Vegan Café

October 3, 2012 Featured News

3/10/2012 AKDA GETACHEW, SPECIAL TO FORTUNE “The brown, flavourful, wholegrain pancakes served at the capital’s new full-time vegan café makes it seem more like a pancake house. While organic veganism is nothing new to Ethiopia, it is overwhelmingly practiced only part-time, based on the Ethiopian Orthodox Church’s fasting schedule. However, Green Arts Coffee, on Debre [...]

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Ethiopian Christians celebrate Demera, the discovery of Jesus’ cross

September 28, 2012 Featured News

By Tinishu Solomon 28/9/2012 Millions of Ethiopian Orthodox church members on Wednesday celebrated the Demera, the eve of the discovery of the cross on which Jesus Christ is believed to have been crucified. Celebrations began in the afternoon with tens of thousands of followers gathering at Meskel Square to celebrate the holy day, together with [...]

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Progressive patriarch brokered peace

September 7, 2012 Featured News

5/9/2012 His Holiness Abune Paulos was Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, one of the oldest Christian Churches in Africa; some two-thirds of Ethiopia’s 83 million people are Christian, the majority following the Orthodox faith. The Church claims its origins from a eunuch and official at the court of the then Queen of Ethiopia said [...]

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The Unexpected Death of Abuna Paulos

August 24, 2012 Featured News

Richard Marsh, Ph.D. CEO, Institute for Food, Brain and Behaviour 24/8/2012 The unexpected death of Abuna Paulos, Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahado Church, on the 16th of August at the age of 76 ushers in a period of uncertainty for Ethiopian Orthodox Christians. His death, together with that of Ethiopian Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, [...]

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A Tribute to Patriarch Abune Paulos (Video)

August 17, 2012 Featured News

17/8/2012 An Exclusive Tribute to Patriarch Abune Paulos of Ethiopia. Source: OCP News Service

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Patriarch Abune Paulose of Ethiopia enters Eternal Rest (Updated)

August 16, 2012 Featured News

16/8/2012 Addis Ababa: His Holiness Abune Paulos, Patriarch and Catholicos of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Archbishop of Axum and Ichege of the See of Saint Teklehaimanot passed away last night in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He was 76 years old.Official sources has confirmed the demise of the Patriarch .The Patriarch was seriously ill and was admitted [...]

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Belcher: Perspective on ancient Ethiopian texts

August 9, 2012 Featured News

Wendy Laura Belcher, an assistant professor of comparative literature and African American studies at Princeton, specializes in medieval, early modern and modern African literature. Her current research focuses on the stories of women saints told in ancient Ethiopian texts. In 2011, Belcher spent a year in Ethiopia researching hagiographies — biographies of saints — stored [...]

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One Man’s Attempt to Capture Ethiopian Armenians’ Dying Legacy

August 5, 2012 News

Lilly Torosyan 4/8/2012 TEZETA is a song form famous in Ethno-Jazz. In Amharic (the language of Ethiopia), it translates to ‘my memory,’ but it means much more. It conveys a sense of nostalgia that can be lost in translation,” describes Aramazt Kalayjian, an independent documentary filmmaker living and working in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. His documentary, [...]

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Twentieth Enthronement Anniversary of Patriarch Abouna Paulos of Ethiopia – Exclusive

July 13, 2012 Featured News

By Solomon Mengist (OCP Special Correspondent in Ethiopia) Photo courtesy: Stalin Gebre-Selassie 13/7/2012 His Holiness Abouna Paulos, Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, celebrates 20th anniversary of enthronement as patriarch of the church on Thursday (July 12) Leaders of sisterly churches, government officials, members of the diplomatic community and invited dignitaries were part of [...]

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An ancient faith in Africa

June 29, 2012 Featured News

By Holland Cotter New York Times 28/6/2012 ZION IN AFRICA Ethiopia’s form of Orthodox Christianity has a Jewish ring to it, with its Saturday Sabbath and other similarities. Tradition has it that the Queen of Sheba, an Ethiopian leader, went to Jerusalem in 10th century B.C. and had a son with King Solomon. The prince [...]

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Ethiopia leaders call for ‘severe’ penalties against gays at hate meet

June 15, 2012 News

15/6/2012 Ethiopian government official uses conference to say country ‘will be the graveyard of homosexuality,’ while religious leaders call for severe punishment to fight this ‘western disease’ Ethiopian government officials, religious leaders and civil representatives have declared their opposition to LGBT rights and condemned homosexuality as a western epidemic. A national conference entitled ‘Homosexuality and [...]

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Ark of Covenant plans for historic Hackney cinema

May 11, 2012 Featured News
The New St Mary C Gabagoo church in Ethiopia which the church would like to emanate

9/5/2012 Plans by an Ethiopian Orthodox Church to turn a rare example of an Edwardian cinema into a 1960s pastiche replica of the Ethiopian church which claims to house the Ark of the Covenant are being fought by a conservation group. The Friends of Clapton Cinematograph Theatre (FCCT) have been campaigning for five years to [...]

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Petition of Vatican Apology for Complicities in the Ethiopian Genocide 1935-1941

April 12, 2012 Featured News

Please watch the video of the Pope blessing the Italian fascist army at 1′:30″ in this video. 12/4/2012 SIGN THE PETITION HERE: Vatican officials and clergy, under the spiritual leadership of Pope Pius XI, blessed Mussolini’s Fascist army on its way to carry out a systematic mass extermination campaign in Ethiopia that claimed the lives [...]

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Ethiopia : Hyenas Deprived of Butcher Scraps During Orthodox Lent Started Hunting Donkeys

April 8, 2012 Featured News

Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer 8/4/2012 Humans aren’t the only ones who give up certain foods for Lent. In the 55 days before Easter in Ethiopia, hyenas are forced to turn from scavenging to hunting to make up for Christians’ fasting traditions. Members of the Orthodox Tewahedo Church give up meat and dairy during the [...]

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Ethiopia: Religious Leaders Confirm Wolkayit Sugar Project Has No Negative Impact On Waldeba Monastery

March 30, 2012 Featured News
An Ethiopian Orthodox Priest Monk

30/3/2012 Gondar — Religious leaders in North Gondar Zone of Amhara State confirmed that the Wolkayit Sugar Development Project will have no negative impact on the Waldeba Monastery. A public consultative forum was held in Gondar Town with a view to creating awareness on the baseless information being disseminated by anti-development forces concerning the project. [...]

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