Exhibition to be organized in Europe

Translated by Derib

An exhibition entitled “THE CHURCH YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW” aimed at introducing the history, heritages and traditions of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church is to be shown in Europe. Dn. Abreham Assefa, Coordinator of the exhibition at the Mahibere Kidusan Europe Center stated that the exhibition is aimed at introducing the overall picture of the Church to Ethiopians and foreigners living in Europe. The coordinator mentioned that the exhibition has nine sections including history of the Church, monasteries, the Ethiopian Calendar, the Church outside Ethiopia, literature and architecture. The exhibition will be held first in Frankfurt, Germany from Ginbot 21-24 2001 E.C. (May 30-June 2 2009) at the Econo Museum Hall in the presence of the Bishops of  North East and South East Europe dioceses and priests.  The exhibition is expected to be visited by five to seven thousand people- both Ethiopian and German.

It was also learned that St. Mary’s Church in Frankfurt will preach the Gospel for 8 days.

Mobile exhibition concluded

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The Mahibere Kidusan America Center announced that it had concluded the mobile exhibition that it had organized in the current physical year. The exhibition entitled “THE CHURCH YESTERDAY, TODAY AND TOMORROW” and “LET US WORK IN UNITY FOR THE UNITY OF THE CHURCH” was showed in seven citied and had eleven sections, namely history of the Church, holy places, holy books, holy pictures, Church music, Church articles, the Ethiopian Calendar, contemporary challenges of the Church, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church tomorrow and Mahibere Kidusan.

It takes two hours for a person to go through the exhibition which had more than 115 posters and other demonstrations. The exhibition was presented for two days in each of the seven cities- Washington DC, Boston, Denver, Atlanta, Seattle, Huston and Minneapolis- without any problem. The center announced that the exhibition will be shown in other cities next year.

In addition to the exhibition, the center announced that it has started organizing workshops at which the laity can learn about their Church and religion. So far two workshops have been conducted in Dallas ad Chicago cities and there is a plan to organize workshops in Seattle and Washington DC in the near future. The workshops help the laity “to work in unity or the unity of the Church”, discuss and do whatever is good.

 Place for Bishop Office purchased

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His Grace Abune Abraham, Bishop of the Diocese of Washington DC and the environs, announced that the Office of Bishop of the Diocese of Washington DC and its environs will be open soon.   His grace stated that the diocese has purchased an office, a work that took more than a year to complete and that has been successfully concluded with the help of the Grace of God, intercession of   St. Mary and the prayer of the fathers. The purchase put the diocese in equal footings with the Diocese of New York and its environs, which was established 50 years ago.

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church established its first diocese outside Ethiopia on  Nehase 28, 1943 E.C. (September 3, 1951) when His Holiness Abune Basilios assigned Abune Filipos Bishop of  Jerusalem.

It is to be recalled that two years later another diocese was established in the West. After the Holy Synod made a decision in 1992 E.C. (2000), bishops have been assigned to America, Caribbean Islands, Western Europe and East Africa.

Mahibere Kidusan distributed books

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The Promotion and Revenue Collection Department of the Social Service and Development Main Department of Mahibere Kidusan announced that it has started distributing books to different dioceses to alleviate the shortage of books that monasteries and traditional schools are facing. 

The department gave 9 ministry books, 125 educational books and 120 copies of Hamer Magazine and Tsim’a Tsidk Newspaper to the Bale Diocese and  8 ministry books, 73 educational books and 80 copies of Hamer Magazine and Tsim’a Tsidk Newspaper to the South Omo Diocese.

During the handing over of the books, His Grace Abune Yishak, General Manager of the EOTC and Bishop of the Bale Diocese, and His Grace Abune Inbakom, Bishop of the South Omo Diocese, stated that Mahibere Kidusan’s   donation of books to monasteries, churches, traditional and Sunday schools realizing the problems that they are facing helps a lot in boosting spiritual service, saving the laity from the false teachings and preaching the Gospel to the nonbelievers.

 It is to be recalled that the association has collected 2905 books at the “Donate a Book.”   programme it organized on Tahisas 11 and 12, 2001 E.C. (December 20 and 21, 2008).

      Praise be to God. Amen!!