Word: ethiopia
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...Africa you see on CNN--Rwanda, Ethiopia, that's just a 5 second soundbite," he adds. "That's not all of Africa...
...year-old native of Ethiopia had missed three of her four final examinations the week before the murder-suicide, and had sent letters to random individuals expressing her desperation with life...
...Queen of Sheba, reputed sanctuary of the Ark of the Covenant and heart of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, such devotion is commonplace. Nothing has ever succeeded in crushing the simple rituals of piety that have been practiced here since the 4th century--not the communist ideology that ruled Ethiopia for much of the past two decades, not the cynicism of the modern age, not the latest plagues of civil war, famine, poverty and AIDS...
...calendar (Nov. 29 this year), pilgrims flock by the tens of thousands to the Cathedral of St. Mary of Zion, the holiest of holy churches in their faith. The continual chants of "Mariam, Mariam, Mariam" bear witness to the high esteem, higher even than that accorded Jesus, in which Ethiopia's Christians hold the Mother of the Saviour. One woman says this is the day Mary was miraculously transported to Axum. Another says no, this is the day Mary stopped here on her flight into Egypt (a long detour, indeed). It doesn't really matter; the pilgrims believe...
HAILE SELASSIE 1935 Ethiopia's Emperor, alone as Italy threatens his nation...