Sentences with phrase «ethiopian churches»

Entering the Old City at the historic Jaffa Gate, Demetrios was ceremonially welcomed by the bishops and priests of the Greek Orthodox Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre, Israeli government and municipal officials, a police honor guard, six bemedaled consuls - general, representatives of the Roman Catholic, Armenian, Syrian Orthodox and Ethiopian churches, two uniformed Dragomen, a baton tossing drum - major, the Arab Orthodox Boy Scout drum and bugle corps, uniformed schoolgirls, scores of monks, nuns, reporters, cameramen and a smattering of curious tourists.

After the Marxist revolution of 1974 and expulsion of the foreign missionaries, Ethiopian churches witnessed explosive growth.

He hopes that improving religious relations will push all Ethiopian churches toward justice and concern for the poor.

The Ethiopian Church is unique in its liturgy, canon law and customs and, at the same time, maintains important links to the Church in other parts of the world.

But in recent years the Ethiopian church has grown increasingly close to the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod and the International Lutheran Council.

Evarts Street is a dead end with an Ethiopian Church at the end of the street.

Radiance from Ancient Heights: Ethiopia's Sacred Art in Context, January 24 A vibrant outpouring of art and architecture has supported the continuity of the Ethiopian church, one of world's earliest churches and the first in sub-Saharan Africa.

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It is a «Catholic» moment in the history of the country, which up to this point had been led by members of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.

Second, Hailemariam seems to be using his position as an opportunity to bring the Apostolic Church of Ethiopian more into the Protestant fold.

A related pair of loosely organized sects that originated in Jamaica, the Rastafarians and the Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church, use marijuana as a sacrament.

The majority of these belong to the ancient Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church; the rest primarily to Protestant denominations such as the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Makane Yesus (which recently broke ties with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America over theological concerns).

The Orthodox church's late leader, Patriarch Abune Paulos, was hailed by Lee and many Ethiopians as a champion of ecumenism, serving as a president of the World Council of Churches until his death in 2012.

The February decision by the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Makane Yesus (EECMY) to terminate its 150 - year partnership with the Church of Sweden (CoS) and its 50 - year partnership with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) comes after the EECMY tried — and failed — to persuade the other two bodies to reverse recent decisions to ordain gay clergy and bless same - sex unions.

The overthrow of the last emperor, Haile Selassie, by a Marxist - inspired coup in 1974 introduced a period of being in the wilderness for the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, which along with other churches experienced martyrdom and persecution.

«The overthrow of the last emperor, Haile Selassie, in 1974 led to a period of being in the wilderness for the Ethiopian Orthodox Church»

The installation of Hailemariam Desalegn as the prime minister in the fall of 2012 was a «Catholic» moment in the history of Ethiopia, which up to this point had been led by members of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.

I think also of the Ethiopian eunuch (from Acts 8), a man who was ethnically and sexually «other,» who was welcomed and baptized without question or hesitation into the early church, but who would no doubt fail all of Mark Driscoll's rigid categories for a what makes «real man» were he a part of the American evangelical church today.

About three - quarters of Orthodox Ethiopians also said they attend church every week, compared with a median of just 10 per cent in Central and Eastern Europe.

The Coptic church is in communion with the Ethiopian, Armenian and Syrian Orthodox churches.

Those who held that there was only one nature in Christ, the Monophysites, were never reconciled to the Chalcedonian position, and the Oriental churches, such as the Syrian, Coptic, Ethiopian and Armenian Orthodox still reject the formula.

Ethiopian Orthodox more likely than Central and Eastern Europe Orthodox to go to church weekly

Members of the Egyptian Coptic, Ethiopian, most Slavic Orthodox, and Georgian Orthodox churches, with some Greek Orthodox faithful, will mark the festival on January 7.

The church also happens to be the focus of rivalry, where for centuries Greeks, Armenians, Syrians, Catholics, Copts and Ethiopians have battled each other for control of every pillar, altar and lamp.

The Holy Spirit indicated that Samaritans (Acts 8:4 - 25) and an Ethiopian (vs. 26 - 40) were to be included in the church.

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The Ethiopian (Abyssinian) Church was in communion with the Copts.

The blurry photos were of a gorgeous infant with dark, thoughtful eyes, a wide forehead, skinny legs and a face like one of the famous Ethiopian paintings of wide - eyed angels that adorn the ceilings of their churches.

Normally «orthodox» refers to Eastern churches such as Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, and Ethiopian Orthodox, while «Protestant» refers to churches descended from the European Protestant Reformation that reformed the Roman Catholic church.

The only structures left standing in this portion of the camp are «social» structures» like St. Michael's Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the camp's legal center, the «Jungle Books» library, child and adult language schools, and a cabin that houses Iranian hunger strikers who sewed their mouths shut earlier this month in protest of the demolitions.

I met three - year - old Maria inside the camp's makeshift wooden church where a religious ceremony to celebrate the Ethiopian New Year was taking place.

For example, the Gregorian calendar numbers its years in the Western Christian era (the Coptic Orthodox and Ethiopian Orthodox churches have their own Christian eras).

Ethiopian King Gebre Mesqel Lalibela ensured his name would always be uttered with awe, when he commissioned 11 interconnected monolithic churches and two chapels to be carved out of red volcanic tuff in the 12th century at his birthplace in the northern reaches of his...

Taye grew up involved with the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and eventually became a deacon.

The origins of the church was the baptism of a member of the Ethiopian royal family by Philip the Evangelist; it became the established church of the Ethiopian Axumite Kingdom under King Ezana in the 4th century.

Not - to - be-missed performances include famed South African artist William Kentridge's interpretation of Kurt Schwitters» celebrated Dada sound poem The Ursonate at the Half Church in Harlem, and Ethiopian - born American artist Julie Mehretu's collaboration with American jazz musician Jason Moran, which confronts the current political landscape with gestural articulations and New Orleans - style funeral procession sounds.