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originally posted by: LABTECH767
a reply to: [post=25720113
I hope it is not true as this can and WILL start a severe religious conflict that and many orthodox Ethiopians around the world would even drop everything to go back and fight to secure the ark since to them it is as it is to the Jewish people and also to other Christians, God's Throne on Earth.
originally posted by: MichiganSwampBuck
It took a month for this news to get here?
Did I just wake up in the early 19th century in a frontier town in some sparsely populated territory waiting for news from half way around the world?
What the hell is wrong with Africa? Don't they have a pony express or telegraph lines yet?
originally posted by: bastion
originally posted by: MichiganSwampBuck
It took a month for this news to get here?
Did I just wake up in the early 19th century in a frontier town in some sparsely populated territory waiting for news from half way around the world?
What the hell is wrong with Africa? Don't they have a pony express or telegraph lines yet?
The problem is with global news and domestic audiences rather than problems within Africa. The ongoing African world war 67m dead and counting is rarely if ever covered as US and UK arm both sides of the conflict.
In academic reseach (Jaap van Ginneken) it takes 1 million deaths in Africa to equal 1 death in a 1st world Capital, or 10 deaths in a City. People don't care as it means we get cheap electronics due to the rare earth minerals mined there.
For example the money raised in Live Aid concerts to try and stop the genocide in the 80s resulted in more deaths than the original genocide between Tutsi and Hutu as the money went to arms and the food aid program was raided by mercenaries but that was never reported in the West as it would break the narrative.
originally posted by: Guyfriday
a reply to: Donner
I'll add to this:
The story goes that due to the Arks power, it gets moved from one church to another on special occasions. That's why all the churches have replicas, but it makes one wonder how do they know which is the real one if you can't tell until you open it?
originally posted by: TonyS
a reply to: rickymouse
Actually, no its not. Around the turn of the century, (19th-20th) a British Explorer gained access to the church and found that what they call the real Ark is a replica.....not the real thing.
originally posted by: TonyS
a reply to: vonclod
O.k., if you do a bit of research you will see that its common practice in Ethiopia that during Saints festivals, the Priests carry little boxes that are replica's representing the AOTC.
See: www.shutterstock.com...
Those boxes on their heads.......that's what he found inside the church. They are representations of the Ark.
originally posted by: ras321
In many ways WWII started with the Italian invasion of Ethiopia. The pope directed mussolini to invade with one goal in mind: to retrieve the ark. The mission failed and the ark was kept safe as it only goes where the Lord wills it to go.
originally posted by: infolurker
Appears this happened last month but the region is under lockdown due to civil conflict. Survivors report that soldiers came to take the Ark of the covenant from the Church and a massacre ensued with 750 murdered.
Makes one wonder if they have it.
www.christiantoday.com...
A Belgium-based peacebuilding non-profit is reporting 750 people killed in an attack on Ethiopia church. The attack happened at the Maryam Tsiyon Church in Aksum, also known as the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion. The locals told EEPA that the attackers wanted to take the Ark of the Covenant to the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. The organisation said the massacre was carried out by Ethiopian federal troops and Amhara militia.
www.christianpost.com...
“I’ve not heard more than rumours about the looting of the Arc from Maryam Tsion, but if it’s true that up to 750 died defending it, it is conceivable that the attackers didn't stop there,” said Michael Gervers, a professor of history at the University of Toronto, according to The Telegraph.
"The government and the Eritreans want to wipe out the Tigrayan culture. They think they’re better than rest of the people in the country. The looting is about destroying and removing the cultural presence of Tigray,” Gervers explained.
At least 800 people were reportedly killed in Ethiopia as worshippers and soldiers risked their lives to protect what Christians there say is the sacred Ark of the Covenant from local militia.
Ethiopian Christians claim the Ark — the wooden chest built to hold the Ten Commandments of Moses — is being kept safe in a chapel in the holy northern city of Axum in the Tigray region.
The battle between Ethiopian soldiers and rebel fighters happened in the fall, The Sunday Times reported, but it is only being reported now.