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The Oromo people (Oromo: Oromoo, pron. / ˈ ɒr əm oʊ / ORR-əm-oh [11]) are a Cushitic ethnic group native to the Oromia region of Ethiopia and parts of Northern Kenya. [12] They speak the Oromo language (also called Afaan Oromoo), which is part of the Cushitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family. [12]
The auspicious day on which this last Mormor Day of Gadaa Melbaa - the Dark Time of starvation and hunger- was established on the Sunday of last week of September or the Sunday of the 1st week of October according to the Gadaa lunar calendar has been designated as National Thanksgiving Day by modern-day Oromo people. [citation needed]
Oromo (/ ˈ ɒr ə m oʊ / [5] OR-əm-ow or / ɔː ˈ r oʊ m oʊ / [6] [7] aw-ROW-mow; Oromo: Afaan Oromoo), historically also called Galla, [8] which is regarded by the Oromo as pejorative, [9] is an Afroasiatic language that belongs to the Cushitic branch.
The Members Church of God International in the Philippines rooted from a similar denomination, the Iglesia ng Dios kay Cristo Jesús, Haligi at Suhay ng Katotohanan (Church of God in Christ Jesus, Pillar and Support of the Truth) which was first headed by Nicolas Antiporda Perez in Pulilan, Bulacan, Philippines in 1928.
The teen, 16, was killed trying to confront Isaac Blackhorse Garcia, 19, over "an inappropriate sexual relationship" he was allegedly having with her 15-year-old sister.
Postmarks commemorating Ethiopian First Day Cover, Meskel festivities, 17 December 1974. Meskel (Ge'ez: መስቀል, romanized: Mesk’el) is an Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church holiday that commemorates the discovery of the True Cross by the Roman Empress Saint Helena of Constantinople in the fourth century.
As tents went up in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to hold migrants, attorneys at the Department of Homeland Security and Pentagon were still trying to determine whether it was legal to take the ...
Police in Sierra Leone have said they are hunting a Dutch drug trafficker who is one of Europe's most-wanted fugitives and believed to be hiding out in the west African country.