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60 million birr stolen from Ethiopian Orthodox church account

August 5th, 2009 |  |  3 Comments

Jimma Times reports that at least 60 million birr is missing from Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo Church’s bank accounts. A member of the Church’s governing body, the Holy Synod, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals, told local journalists the missing money is one of the sources of recent disputes inside the church’s top leadership… [read more]

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3 Comments to “60 million birr stolen from Ethiopian Orthodox church account”

  1. ZEBEGNA says:

    yazew leba!!leba!!!!!!!

    [Reply]

    August 5th, 2009 at 5:28 PM

  2. Genet says:

    wow,
    what are we waiting for? they gave away our land we kept quite, they killed our brothers and sisters for voting we kept quite, they made us struggle to eat once a day we kept quite, now the are distorying our religion…the root of who we are, we are still quite. please let us be like south africans who brought the end to apartahid, Let us not be voiceless when when can do much. we have to able to save our church from this Hodams who claim to serve God but there to full fill the need of their fles.

    simu abattoch yetibalachu hulu

    the word God says ” eminet yale sira, siram yale eminet kentu new” if you truly love God and this Holly church, show us your responsibliity by encouraging the followrs of the church to stand up to this humliation that is being done to our beloved church.

    geta hoyi yemiyaregutin ayakumna ante yikir belachw!!!

    [Reply]

    August 6th, 2009 at 1:14 AM

  3. Ayinalem says:

    The Ethiopian Orthodox Church (EOC) has a vast network .This particular money was supposed to be used for Ethiopian Orthodox Church involvement in HIV/AIDS prevention, care .Please call or write (EOC) at the following and make your voice heard…+251 1 55 35 66 or 11 96 61, Fax: +251 1 55 14 55,
    E-mail: eoc.dicac@telecom.net.et.

    [Reply]

    August 7th, 2009 at 4:29 PM

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