Word: geez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Church, which has managed to keep Christianity alive in its corner of Africa for more than 1,500 years, despite the aggressive proselytizing of Islam. Most of its priests are uneducated and cannot understand the words of their exhausting liturgies, which are celebrated in a long-dead language called Geez. Although monks and nuns are bound to celibacy, the rule has frequently been ignored. The clergy share the poverty of the people, even though the church itself, as the state religion, owns more than one-eighth of the land in feudal style...