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The term mezmur is instinctively denotes an Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo music. There are also wide range of Islamic music. Protestant music also plays a dominant role since booming its distribution via CDs in 2000s, and recently it evolves from digital downloads.
P'ent'ay (from Ge'ez: ጴንጤ P̣enṭe) is an originally Amharic–Tigrinya language term for Pentecostal Christians.Today, the term refers to all Evangelical Protestant denominations and organisations in Ethiopian and Eritrean societies.
For Martin Luther, who spearheaded the Reformation, Daniels says "the Ethiopian Church conferred legitimacy on Luther's emerging Protestant vision of a church outside the authority of the Roman Catholic papacy" as it was "an ancient church with direct ties to the apostles". [25]
Elias Melka was born in Sebategna, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to his father Melka Geresu and his mother Atsede Feleke and raised in Abinet, Addis Ababa. [3] [4] Elias was born to a Protestant family, and this led him to becoming a member of church choir.
Protestant (Evangelical Christianity) Orientation: Lutheran (with some Pentecostal [1] influence and one Presbyterian-leaning synod) Theology: Pietistic Lutheranism [2] Leader: Yonas Yigezu: Associations: LWF, WCRC, AACC, WCC, FECCLAHA, ECFE, P'ent'ay Ethiopian–Eritrean Evangelicalism: Region: Ethiopia: Origin: 1959 Addis Ababa: Congregations
The Orthodox Tewahedo biblical canon is a version of the Christian Bible used in the two Oriental Orthodox Churches of the Ethiopian and Eritrean traditions: the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church.
Pentecostalism has paid attention to local spirits, while other Protestant churches have dismissed such spirits or denied belief in them. [8] The use of exorcism reinforces the belief that Pentecostals and their God hold a special power over these spirits, a conviction that has led people to convert to Pentecostalism and abandon denominations ...
The Ethiopian Kale Heywet Church was founded in 1927 in southern Ethiopia by the evangelical missionary organization Sudan Interior Mission and Dr. Thomas Alexander Lambie. [1]