Word: coptic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. The Abuna Abraham, 77, blind Patriarch of the "Independent National Church of Ethiopia" (Coptic), who was appointed in 1937 by the Italians when the Abuna Cyril fled to Egypt and started a schism between the Ethiopian and Egyptian Coptic Churches; in Addis Ababa...
...Henry Nesbitt, a Hyde Park neighbor who became proficient at catering, is the White Housekeeper: orders meals for the President (he loves game, sea food), the boys (steaks, chops), exotic visitors (an Abyssinian Coptic who ate no flesh was a problem), hires & fires servants (for economy the Roosevelts cut the Hoovers' 32 down to 23). Already she has drafted tentative menus for Their Majesties: for lunch, sweetbreads; for dinner, capon...
...rarely do man and wife separate because of a father-in-law's politics. Ethiopians, however, are different, and last week from his self-exile in Jerusalem the thin-faced, kinky-haired son of Haile Selassie, Crown Prince Asfa Wassan, wrote to Patriarch Amba Yoannes XIX of the Coptic Church, in Cairo, petitioning this venerable prelate for a divorce from Princess Holata-Israel, daughter of his father's most powerful chieftain, Ras Seyoum, who capitulated to the Italian invaders during their campaign...
Among the 2,000,000 Manhattanites who observed high holy days during the past fortnight were some 600 black Jews in Harlem. Of these a few are converts but most are Negroes of Semitic origin from Africa-chiefly Ethiopia, whose Coptic Church bears some Hebrew ritual traits. Harlem's only black Jewish synagog is run by a bearded Negro named Moshe Ben Moshe Ben Yehuda, who was born in Lagos, West Africa, but took the U. S. name of Wentworth Arthur Matthew. Rabbi Matthew is a D. D. from the University of Berlin, has studied in Palestine...
...Force," a mission headed by Archbishop Giovanni Maria Emilio Castellani, 49, lately of Rhodes. Under this able Franciscan, Vatican-trained native missionaries, white priests and what the Protestants called "swarms of nuns" were pitching in to "reclaim" 5,000,000 Copts to the Catholic faith, with which the Ethiopian Coptic Church was allied in early times and again for a few years in the 17th Century. From Vatican City came report that Italy and the Church's C. E. F. will follow the British empire-building policy of nowhere attempting to impose faith by force...