Fasting, Prayer & Repentance: Keys to Approach the Holy God, Abune Mathias
January 13, 2017
Saint Frieminatos Abba Selama Kesate Berhan Theological College of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church based in Mekele town, 761 km north of Addis Ababa, dismissed nine students on January 6, 2017 for displaying heretic tendencies.
According to information obtained from Mekele Branch of Mahibere Kidusan, the students whose college education has been terminated have been taking heretical trainings from Ato Yared Tsegay who was also dismissed for similar dissent. Following his dismissal, Ato Yared formed a denomination of his own, known as “Ye ‘ewnet qal teketayoch” (literally meaning ‘Followers of the true word’) and has been unlawfully spreading heretical teachings in and around Mekele town.
Editing by Tsegaye Girma
Coptic Solidarity – Raymond Ibrahim – 18/1/17 – That the Coptic Christian Church continues to voice its support for President Sisi should not be interpreted to mean that the situation of Egypt’s Christian minority has improved. One need only look to the substratum of news for confirmation.
January 17, 2017
By Mesfin Zegeye
‘Qenie Misikir Guba’e Bet’ (School of Excellence of Ge’ez Poem), established in Chegode Hana, Quarit Wereda parish at Fengetta kebele in the West Gojam Diocese of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church, was destroyed in a fire accident that started in the morning of January 15, 2017.
This Qine Misikir Guba’e Bet – a certification center – of Liqe Liqawint Yared Shiferaw, has produced a lot of church intellectuals since its establishment and continues to do so to this day.
Witnesses say that the windy weather, the fact that the pupils of the Guba’e Bet and the laity in the area were at the annual Trinity celebration some distance from the locality, and the fact that the Guba’e Bet was made of wood and grass, all combined making the fire accident more destructive than it would have been otherwise.
Local sources indicate that 500 to 600 pupils have been attending their studies at the Guba’e Bet and currently these have been sheltered in the parts of the Guba’e Bet house that remained undamaged by the fire.Mahibere Kidusan expresses its heart-felt sorrow to the Guba’e Bet teacher, Liqe Liqawint Yared Shiferaw, the pupils and the laity in the locality about the tragedy. Mahiber Kidusan wishes God give them the strength to go through this painful moment.
The Guba’e Bet has called out to fellow Christians to give them their support so as to restore the Gube’e Bet to its original condition, avoid leaving of pupils studying there and the school from being closed down.
January 5, 2017
By Kassa Nigus
H.H. Patriarch Abune Mathias expressed his good wishes and congratulations to the laity on the occasion of the Birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ this Ethiopian Christmas celebrated on Tahisas 29, 2009 Eth. C./ January 7, 2017 G.C.
Statement on the bombing at Saint Peter Coptic Orthodox Church (known as “Botrosiya”), Abassiya, Egypt, December 11, 2016, Coinciding with the Blessed Month of Koiahk 2, 1733 [a.m.].