By Jennifer Williams VOX “Madonna with the Book (Conestabile Madonna)” by Raffaello Sanzio, 1504.Sergio Anelli/Electa/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images Christmas, as everyone knows, commemorates the birth of Jesus and is a major religious celebration for Christians around the world. But what many people don’t know is that Jesus is an important figure in Islam, too, even…
FULL TEXT OF PROF. BERHANU NEGA’S ADDRESS TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT Ethiopia as an Anchor for Peace and Stability in the Horn of Africa and The Need for a Broad-based Transitional Political Order Berhanu Nega Honorable chair, and distinguished members of the European parliament Ladies and Gentlemen: Allow me to first express my sincere condolences…
By Ali A. Rizvi, HPost Where are all the secular liberals in the Muslim world? I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve heard this question. The answer is both unsurprising and heartbreaking. In Muslim-majority countries, they are often beinglashed and imprisoned for blogging, hacked to death in open daylight, or sentenced to death for writing poetry.…
By Allison Miller, Historians Asked how she came to translate the life story of Walatta Petros, a 17th-century Ethiopian woman saint, Wendy Belcher jokes that the story takes a while to tell. She’s right. Just published by Princeton University Press,The Life and Struggles of Our Mother Walatta Petros, written by a monk in 1672, which Belcher…
By Sally Hayden, Vice It’s been nearly 25 years since Ethiopia’s Soviet-backed Derg regime was ousted. As a coalition of rebel forces approached capital city Addis Ababa on May 27, 1991, four senior ministers — accused of ordering mass killings — used the darkness of night to creep into the Italian embassy. What followed is a…
Business Insider The conflicts between Shia and Sunni Muslims go back to the seventh century and the death of the Prophet Muhammad. Yet a spotlight has been shone recently on the differences between the two branches of the religion as the number of clashes between both groups has intensified. The vast majority of the 1.6 billion Muslims…
By Adie Vanessa Offiong /Daily Trust Ethiopia’s first mosque undergoing restoration Ethiopia is a country full of history and stories. These stories connect the ancient civilisation to several other destinations across the world. One such is its link with Islam and Mecca. Ethiopians, according to the tour guide, Temesgen Bitewlign, were very receptive of Muslims…
JPost Jews of Kechene, Ethiopia pretend to be Christians as they secretly practice Judaism in remote synagogues. Elders of theBeta Israel community of North Shewa, Ethiopia . (photo credit:Courtesy) I have always been fascinated by the story of the Beta Israel Jews of Ethiopia. At the time of the epic Operation Solomon, I was living…