Tag: Ethiopia
Ethiopia: Religious Leaders Calls for Support for National Development
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
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’
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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