Tag: Ethiopia

Ethiopia: Religious Leaders Calls for Support for National Development

OCP- September 17, 2013

17/9/13 Adis Ababa — Ethiopia's religious leaders have urged Ethiopians to uphold peace and support the country's efforts in national development in their New Year ... Read More

Rhythm divine: the Ethiopian nun whose music enraptured the Holy Land

OCP- August 21, 2013

Emahoy Tsegué-Mariam Guebrù: Jersualem's best kept musical secret for 30 years. Photograph: Gali Tibbon Harriet Sherwood in Jerusalem- August 2013 Jersusalem's classical music lovers honour ... Read More

Eritrea Punishes High School Students for ‘Commitment to Christ’

OCP- August 12, 2013

12/8/13 Eritrean authorities have arrested 39 high school students for their Christian faith, excluding them from a graduation ceremony and subjecting them to beatings and ... Read More

CNN: Rock churches of Lalibela, the Jerusalem of Ethiopia

OCP- July 2, 2013

Errol Barnett, CNN - 1/7/13 Lalibela, Ethiopia (CNN) -- It's 4 o'clock on a Sunday morning when a trail of figures dressed in white emerges from the ... Read More

Egypt’s Brotherhood ‘exclusionary political sect’: Bishop

OCP- June 15, 2013

Ahram Online – 15/6/13 Bishop Moussa says Muslim Brotherhood, President Morsi need to interact with all Egyptian citizens, Islamist forces, civic groups and Coptic Christians. ... Read More

Visit by Ethiopia’s Orthodox Church head to Cairo postponed

OCP- June 15, 2013

13/6/13 A planned visit by the head of Ethiopia's Orthodox Tewahedo Church to Cairo is postponed while officials scrabble for a diplomatic compromise on Ethiopia's ... Read More

Egypt’s Coptic pope holds meeting on Nile row before meeting Ethiopian counterpart

OCP- June 12, 2013

Ahram Online - 12/6/13 Coptic Pope Tawadros II meets with Egyptian church representatives to discuss Nile file in advance of scheduled trip to Cairo by ... Read More

Presidency, Church prepare joint Ethiopia trip to discuss controversial dam

OCP- June 7, 2013

Emad Khalil 7/6/13 Egypt's presidency and the Coptic Orthodox Church are coordinating for a joint trip to Ethiopia by President Mohamed Morsy and Pope Tawadros ... Read More

Into the Forests of Gondar

OCP- June 5, 2013

Worshippers approach the Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Church of St. George on St. George’s holiday. Hewn from solid rock in the 13th century, it is one ... Read More

Ethiopia: Farewell Archbishop

OCP- May 8, 2013

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 ... Read More

An Ethiopian Easter: Unexpected wonders of Lalibela and Addis Ababa

OCP- March 30, 2013

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. ... Read More

Ethiopia: The First Christian Nation?

OCP- March 6, 2013

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 ... Read More

Consecration of Abune Mathias of Ethiopia – Exclusive Snaps

OCP- March 5, 2013

          OCP News Service 5/3/13 Exclusive Coverage Addis Ababa: His Holiness Abuna Mathias was consecrated as the Sixth Patriarch and Catholicos ... Read More

Hindus Urge New Ethiopian Church Patriarch to Promote Interfaith Dialogue

OCP- March 4, 2013

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, ... Read More

Abune Mathias Elected as the new Patriarch of Ethiopia

OCP- February 28, 2013

  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 ... Read More

Ethiopia: Lalibela’s underground churches

OCP- February 22, 2013

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 ... Read More

Eritrea: military conscription is killing Church

OCP- December 17, 2012

December 2012 Military conscription in Eritrea is leaving the Church understaffed – as seminarians and other Church workers are forced to join the army. A ... Read More

SCHOLL: The king and I: from Prisoner to Patriarch

OCP- November 23, 2012

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 ... Read More

The myths and modernity 
of northern Ethiopia

OCP- October 12, 2012

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 ... Read More

Addis Abeba’s New Vegan Café

OCP- October 3, 2012

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 ... Read More

Ethiopian Christians celebrate Demera, the discovery of Jesus’ cross

OCP- September 28, 2012

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 ... Read More