Experience Timkat (ጥምቀት) in Gondar, Ethiopia Jan 19, 2018
(Amharic: Timkat ጥምቀት which means “baptism”) also spelled Timket, or Timqat is the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo celebration of Epipha...
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Illuminated Manuscript, Ethiopian canon tables, Canon table, Walters Manuscript W.838, fol. 2v
This fragmentary manuscript, comprised of four canon tables spread over one bifolium, would originally have been the introductory pa...
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Quick Facts: Bet Gabriel Rufael one of the 11 monolithic rock-cut churches in Lalibela
Bet Gabriel Rufael – one of the 11 monolithic rock-cut churches found in Lalibela (formerly known as Roha) in northern Ethiopi...
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Abune Yesehaq Memorial Dec. 29
His Eminence Abuna Yesehaq, born Laike Maryam Mandefro in Adwa, Ethiopia, 1933; and passed 29 December 2005 at the Beth Israe...
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A leap of faith! Ethiopia’s ‘church in the sky’ is perched on a 2,500ft cliff
Abuna Yemata Guh has been on the clifftop on Northern Ethiopia since 5th century AD To visit requires a six-metre climb up sh...
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Quick Fact: Ethiopian Christian & Muslim Brotherhood Relations Forever
Ethiopian Christians and Muslims in friendship and brotherhood for eternity It all started back in the year 615 A.D. when muslim ref...
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Oct. 25, 1959, Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Faith Sent To West
Yesehaq (Mandefro) of the Western Hemisphere RTV NOTE: H.I.M. Emeperor Haile Selassie I was The Defender of Faith and Head of...
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Ethiopia: Hosanna (Palm Sunday) in the Ancient Tewahedo Tradition
H.I.M. Emperor Haile Selassie I Speaks: It is for this reason that the Church of Christ and especially the Christian leaders have su...
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TEACHINGS OF HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY… Address to the World Council of Churches
This is particularly so as it is more timely than ever for followers of Christ to gather to deliberate on current vital issues affec...
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Fasting, Prayer & Alms Giving: Nineveh ጾመ ነነዌ Fast Feb. 6-8
Fasting is abstinence from all things a body needs, and one has to fast from animal products and from any kind of food for a limited...
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Timkat: The Sacred Journey, celebrating the baptism of Christ in Ethiopia
In celebration of the baptism of Christ in the river Jordan, Timket is considered the most paramount festival of Orthodox Chr...
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Delving into Ethiopia’s ancient past and present
Worlds of color: A basket-seller in Aksum. | LESLEY DOWNER PHOTO I’m edging my way through a long tunnel in pitch darkness, feeling...
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