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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.
Protestant music also plays a dominant role since booming its distribution via CDs in 2000s, and recently it evolves from digital downloads. Some Ethiopian religious music has an ancient Christian element, traced to Yared , who lived during the reign of Emperor Gebre Meskel (Son of Kaleb of Aksumite Empire ) in the 6th century.
Tigrinya notices at an Eritrean Orthodox Church in Schiebroek, Rotterdam, Netherlands.. Tigrinya (ትግርኛ, Təgrəñña), sometimes spelled Tigrigna, is an Ethio-Semitic language commonly spoken in Eritrea and in northern Ethiopia's Tigray Region by the Tigrinya and Tigrayan peoples respectively. [3]
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]
The Protestant Reformation resulted in two conflicting attitudes to hymns. One approach, the regulative principle of worship , favored by many Zwinglians , Calvinists among others, considered anything that was not directly authorized by the Bible to be a novel and Catholic introduction to worship, which was to be rejected.
Geʽez (/ ˈ ɡ iː ɛ z / [5] or / ɡ iː ˈ ɛ z /; [6] ግዕዝ Gəʽ(ə)z [7] IPA: [ˈɡɨʕ(ɨ)z] ⓘ, and sometimes referred to in scholarly literature as Classical Ethiopic) is an ancient South Semitic language. The language originates from what is now Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Ethiopian liturgical chant, or Zema, is a form of Christian liturgical chant practiced by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. [1] [2] The related musical notation is known as melekket. [3]
He popularized Tigrigna songs through his albums to the non-Tigrinya speaking Ethiopians. Letesenbet Gidey - athlete, 10,000 meters world champion and multiple medalist, holds two world records and one world best; Meles Zenawi – Former Prime Minister of Ethiopia; Mikael Sehul – Ras of Ethiopia