Saturday, December 09, 2017

Why is Orthodoxy booming in Ethiopia

(Dec 09, AleteiaSights and sounds of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. A montage of video and still photographs taken during the Meskel Feast at Lake Tana, Epiphany at Gonder and the Maryam Feast at Axum. By Sean Sprague.

With respect to Catholicism and Protestantism, which over the past century have expanded from Europe to the other continents and above all in Latin America and Africa where they now count the bulk of their faithful, Orthodox Christianity has remained concentrated with more than three fourths of its members in Europe, with the only big exception being none other than Ethiopia. Read more from Aleteia 

 

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