The holy Synood in Exile has endorsed the Ethiopian Muslims movement and called upon the faithful to join the movement. Negashi OJ believes that this is a huge step forward in creating a united front in the struggle for a democratic Ethiopia where all Ethiopians regard of their belief,etnicity or the like enjoy equal freedom.
Here is the clip with a note from ECADForum..com:
Washington D.C. –The Holy Synod of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in Exile has concluded its 33rd regular conference successfully. It has discussed several national issues in the three days meeting. At the end of the conference,the Holy Synod made a press release in which it condemned the killing of Muslim brothers and sisters in Ethiopia and called upon all Orthodox believers to join the fellow Muslims in their protest against the unlawful intervention of the TPLF/EPRDF regime in their religious norms.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qd_U7NHZSng
Well. Good start. We must know that the Axum Muslims like the harar church must now be recognized in public,this will show mutaul respect.
Church and state are two separate entities. The broadmass in between has two needs to satisfy. They are spiritual needs and secular needs. To satisfy the spiritual needs,the church plays the role while the state plays the the secular role. This is a crear distinction.
The other distinction is the ultimate goals of the two institutions. The church preaches for life after death while the state stands for the people before death. Clergies hold office by appointment government offials hold office by election. This is a clear distinction of accountability.
The intervantion one on the other escalates the conflict than solution.
We beg the Respectful clergies of our church not to involve in such dirty politics.
Please live upto your role as Messengers of God!!!!!!
Unfortunately,the current problem that you are commenting about started becasue of the TPLF controlled government's blatant inteference in the religious affairs of Ethiopian Muslims and Orthodox Christians. Very clear interference that you missed …
The TPLF controlled government does not follow the constitution and will only have use for it when it needs some excuse to crush peaceful opposition.
WakeUP! Selamawit!
Aselamualikum
this is good biginig but we must ask,if they accsept our t history and Axum Muslim issue