{"id":4007,"date":"2016-10-10T04:21:24","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T04:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/official-statement-of-the-holy-synod-up-on-the-current-affairs-of-the-country\/"},"modified":"2016-10-10T04:21:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T04:21:24","slug":"official-statement-of-the-holy-synod-up-on-the-current-affairs-of-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/official-statement-of-the-holy-synod-up-on-the-current-affairs-of-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Official Statement of the Holy Synod up on the Current Affairs of the Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: georgia, palatino; color: #008080\"><b><i>October 10, 2016<\/i><\/b><\/span> <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: georgia, palatino; color: #008080\"><i>By Kassa Nigus<\/i><\/span>&nbsp; <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"> &nbsp;<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\"><i><b>&ldquo;And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the Lord for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.&rdquo; Jer 29&#4961;7<\/b><\/i>&nbsp;<\/span> <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"> <span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\">&nbsp; <span style=\"color: #008080\"><b>In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, One God, Amen.<\/b><\/span><\/span> <\/div>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-4006\" src=\"http:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-content\/uploads\/picture_989_2.jpg\" style=\"float: left; margin: 5px\" height=\"229\" width=\"345\" title=\"picture_989_2.jpg\" alt=\"picture_989_2.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-content\/uploads\/picture_989_2.jpg 1608w, https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-content\/uploads\/picture_989_2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-content\/uploads\/picture_989_2-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-content\/uploads\/picture_989_2-1030x684.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-content\/uploads\/picture_989_2-1500x996.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-content\/uploads\/picture_989_2-705x468.jpg 705w, https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-content\/uploads\/picture_989_2-450x299.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 345px) 100vw, 345px\" \/> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"> <span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\">Previously, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church has been expressed her sadness and declares a period of prayer up on the loss of many lives, damage and destruction of property following a frequent violence of people against the government in most parts of the country. &nbsp;Now, the Church also issued a statement on the loss of human life gathered at the Oromo Irreechaa annual festival in Bishoft ( Debre Zeyit), 47.9 kilometers southeast of Addis Ababa on October 1, 2016.<\/span> <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"> <span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\">As the prophet Jeremiah taught us that humans shall seek peace for the country for peace of its people based on the peace of their country. &nbsp;The basic concept of peace is a condition whereby people live together in unity. Even everybody can understand that &lsquo;Greetings&rsquo; people communicate in their everyday life is the result of peace.<\/span> <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"> <span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\"><b>Our Beloved Ethiopians:&nbsp;<\/b><\/span> <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"> <span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\">Following the loss of our brothers in Irrecha Oromo annual festival, the Holy Synod of Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church has now released a statement expressing their &ldquo;deepest sympathy and sorrow&rdquo;. &nbsp;Accordingly, the Holy Synod decided to hold a seven &#8211; days period of prayers;<\/span> <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\">To remember those who lost their lives from this world for God may rest in Heaven the departed souls since October 5, 2016 across the country and foreign diocese, monasteries, parishes and churches.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\">May our Lord, the owner of Peace grants peace for Ethiopia and its people and to heal victims of the violence. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\">Even if the need to come up with everlasting peace is a task of everybody, our church takes joint effort remarkably with all stakeholders to bring peace. Finally, the church strongly commends that unsatisfied Ethiopians shall forward their valid question in a socially responsible Ethiopian manner, and the government shall respond a fair and timely response according to his responsibility.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\"><\/span> <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"> <span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\">M<i>ay God saved the soul of our brothers departed from this world!<\/i><\/span> <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"> <span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\"><i>May God glorify His mercy for those who are in medical treatment!<\/i><\/span> <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"> <span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\"><i><\/i><i>May God protect Our Country and its People!<\/i><\/span> <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: georgia, palatino\"><i>His Holiness Abune Mathias I, <\/i><\/span> <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: georgia, palatino\"><i>Patriarch of Ethiopia,<\/i><\/span> <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: georgia, palatino\"><i>Archbishop of Axum andIchege <\/i><\/span> <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\"> <span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\"><i><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">of the See of Saint Taklehaiman<\/span>ot.<\/i><\/span> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: georgia, palatino; color: #008080\"><b><i>October 10, 2016<\/i><\/b><\/span> <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\"> <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: georgia, palatino; color: #008080\"><i>By Kassa Nigus<\/i><\/span>&nbsp; <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"> &nbsp;<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\"><i><b>&ldquo;And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captives, and pray unto the Lord for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.&rdquo; Jer 29&#4961;7<\/b><\/i>&nbsp;<\/span> <\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"> <span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\">&nbsp; <span style=\"color: #008080\"><b>In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, One God, Amen.<\/b><\/span><\/span> <\/div>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-4006\" src=\"http:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-content\/uploads\/picture_989_2.jpg\" style=\"float: left; margin: 5px\" height=\"229\" width=\"345\" title=\"picture_989_2.jpg\" alt=\"picture_989_2.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-content\/uploads\/picture_989_2.jpg 1608w, https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-content\/uploads\/picture_989_2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-content\/uploads\/picture_989_2-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-content\/uploads\/picture_989_2-1030x684.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-content\/uploads\/picture_989_2-1500x996.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-content\/uploads\/picture_989_2-705x468.jpg 705w, https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-content\/uploads\/picture_989_2-450x299.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 345px) 100vw, 345px\" \/> <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"> <span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino\">Previously, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church has been expressed her sadness and declares a period of prayer up on the loss of many lives, damage and destruction of property following a frequent violence of people against the government in most parts of the country. &nbsp;Now, the Church also issued a statement on the loss of human life gathered at the Oromo Irreechaa annual festival in Bishoft ( Debre Zeyit), 47.9 kilometers southeast of Addis Ababa on October 1, 2016.<\/span> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eotcmk.org\/e\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}