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Holy Trinity Day 8th Kiros and Abba Banuda 9th Thomas (not the Apostle) 10th Kidus Meskel (Feast of the Holy Cross) 11th Hanna we Iyaqem (St Anne and St. Joachim, parents of the Holy Virgin Mary) and Fasilides: 12th Michael the Archangel, Samuel, and Yared: 13th Feast of Igziabher Ab (God the Father) and Raphael the Archangel: 14th
In 1962, a new Amharic translation from Ge'ez was printed, again with the patronage of the Emperor. The preface by Emperor Haile Selassie I is dated "1955" (), and the 31st year of his reign (i.e. AD 1962 in the Gregorian Calendar), [10] and states that it was translated by the Bible Committee he convened between AD 1947 and 1952, "realizing that there ought to be a revision from the original ...
The earliest account of an Ethiopian converted to the faith in the New Testament books is a royal official baptized by Philip the Evangelist (distinct from Philip the Apostle), one of the seven deacons (Acts, 8:26–27): Then the angel of the Lord said to Philip, Start out and go south to the road that leads down from Jerusalem to Gaza.
As a member of the Evangelical Church Fellowship of Ethiopia, the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus is in communion or cooperation with the Ethiopian Kale Heywet Church (a Baptist denomination), the Ethiopian Full Gospel Believers' Church (a Pentecostal denomination), and the Meserete Kristos Church (a Mennonite-affiliated denomination).
Oriental Orthodox Christians, such as Copts, Syrians and Indians, use a breviary such as the Agpeya and Shehimo, respectively, to pray the canonical hours seven times a day while facing in the eastward direction towards Jerusalem, in anticipation of the Second Coming of Jesus; this Christian practice has its roots in Psalm 119:164, in which the ...
Worship is conducted outdoors, usually at a site near a sacred tree called a k'ole, wrapped in variously-colored strips of cloth. This appears to be a survival of a biblical tradition: " Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there the name of God" ( Genesis 21:33) and "where the women wove hangings for the grove" ( II Kings 23:7).
Amharic was the language of primary school instruction, but has been replaced in many areas by regional languages such as Oromiffa, Somali or Tigrinya. [15] While all languages enjoy equal state recognition in the 1995 Constitution of Ethiopia , Amharic is recognized as the official working language of the Federal Government .
Addis Zemen (አዲስ ዘመን; "New Era" in English) [1] is an Ethiopian Amharic newspaper published by the federal government's Ethiopian Press Agency, [2] which also publishes the English-language Ethiopian Herald.