Word: ethiopia
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Twice a year the monks and priests of the Church of Narga Selassie on Dek Island in northern Ethiopia gather to bless an urn of water scooped from the lake that surrounds them. They pray over the water for three days and ask God to sanctify it in the name of Jesus. Then, in a small stone alcove, the head monk pours the water over a silver cross, its detailed engravings worn almost smooth with centuries of polishing, and onto the heads of believers who come in their dozens to be baptized. For the rest of the year the waters...
...recruited new Netizens last week, sending a reporter with a laptop to the drought-stricken village of Moyale, Ethiopia, so that residents could take part in a daylong online chat with visitors to BBC.com Notes from a Teacher, a Canadian journalism instructor's blog, praised the BBC for "facilitating public, person-to-person conversation." The Concoction, an Africa-focused blog, saw a lesson for NGOs, which should "follow the BBC's example" and talk to locals "before they design their projects." Wonkette played the snarky cynic: "Live starving villagers waiting to talk to you!" it said. "That...
...mail, “was both challenging and exhilarating.” Indeed, The Crimson reported in November 1984 that after hearing a lecture in Moral Reasoning 22: “Justice,” two students started a fund-raiser to help famine-stricken Ethiopia. Talk about a moral imperative.SHOULD IT STAY OR SHOULD IT GO?So what changed? According to a March 10 article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, more than half of university professors nationwide think it’s “important to enhance undergraduates’ self-understanding and to develop their moral...
...things: at once personal and autobiographical. He says, “I often make films about things that are bothering me. I use film to see more clearly what I can’t see very well.” He describes shooting in places such as Nicaragua and Ethiopia, and how he combined the images from those locations with the story of how he and his wife attempted to have children and finally adopted a child. He says simply of this project, “It helped organize a period in which I was confused about my place...
...bloody muddle of Iraq may weary them of playing this role once again. That would please those who would like to see Gulliver bound, but they might be careful of what they wish for. In the years after Vietnam, the Soviet Union, uncontained, went adventuring in Angola, Ethiopia and Afghanistan. If, after Iraq, the U.S. decided that sorting out the world's problems just wasn't worth the hassle, any answer to the question "Who will contain Iran?" (nobody? Israel?) would be a lot more uncomfortable than "Uncle...