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What is Mahebere Kidusan?

By Bertu L’Ethiopia

Among several of the Ethiopian online journals, it is not an exaggeration to state that Ethiopian Review is the only one that understands the implications of Woyanne’s infiltration of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo Church (EOTC). This is due to its keen understanding that to dismember Ethiopia and build its own empire, Woyanne first must neutralize the 2000 year old institution — THE ETHIOPIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH.

This 13-page article (Amharic, pdf, click here to read) explains in detail how Mahebere Kidusan was created and what it is doing currently.

This document (click here) shows how Mahebere Kidusan achieved an unprecedented power within the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.

53 thoughts on “What is Mahebere Kidusan?

  1. Dear Editor.I am ashemed of you.You can talk but you can’t convince any one.It is just west of time.Thankyou so much you are promoting the association.Because you are the #1 enemy for Ethiopia.Those who hate Ethiopia also hate Mahiberekidusan.Keep it up.
    Tantu

  2. To begin with, what is Mahibere Kidusan? How come they call them selves “Kidusan”? Today this(kidusan) and tomorow they will be Jesus or god? ሰው እንዴት እራሱን ቅዱሳኖች ነን ይላል?

  3. Well! Oh well! what do we expext folks? They to have “Their own” Church that goes with their “Abay Tigrai”! Of cource I guess this tewahdo church is supposed to be different from the one in Ethiopia and Eritrea! Folks these gangs of Adwa are willing to do anything and everything to destroy the country we call Ethiopia and all its instutitions! ere gena ne’w min ayachehuna!!!

  4. Here is a previous conscript of the genology of Mahebere Kidusan…………..

    The current members of this organization may not even be aware of the history of this hideous organization, as they were not even born when the organization was first formed.

    It all began as opposition group of the late Abuna Tewoflos as “Atekalye Gubaye” for three primary reasons.

    1) Abuna Tewoflos began in earnest the ground work for making the church to be economically self sufficient especially from the grips of dictatorial regimes. This Gubaye opposed this plan from the start and in 1975 they used the Arat Kilo Property as falls evidence to bring a drummed charges of corruption against the patriarch which was used by the Derg for the massacre of the Holy Father. Ironically today almost 40 years later these properties are providing the intended benefit to the church proving the Abuna Tewoflos insightful vision

    2) In order to forever curb the influence of menafekan and “Atekalye Gubaye”, the patriarch in acted the formation of “Sebeka Gubaye” allowing every member of the parish to participate in the daily activity of the church till this very day.

    3) Unlike today’s state of the church “Teneshewa Mekele”, The Holy father was a staunch Ethiopian who vehemently opposed to ethnic preferences in order to serve the body of Christ which ran to the contrary of “Atekalye Gubaye” main goal.

    After its successful role in the assassination of the Holy Father, in 1981 the organization had a nerve to submit application to the Holy Synod to freely organize within the Church without any kind of accountibility. The Late Abuna TekleHaimanot sealed its fate by denying its request and later on its ultimate refugee in Zewaye area where it adopted the current infamous name “Mahebere Kidusan”. This coincided with the invasion of Woyane in 1991 who perfectly knew the history of the organization to successfully used it as a readymade tool to infiltrate the Church for its own agenda. From that time forward “Mahebere Kidusan” was allowed to organize for the first time free from the church’s authority in every parish throughout Ethiopia except Tigray region.

    In 2001 the division within Woyane’s rank gave a new golden opportunity to “Mahebere Kidusan” when the surviving woyane entity (Melese’s flank) who moved to seek alliance with the other nationalities as its lost a significant Tigray base. In this endeavor Aba Geberemedhene was quickly summoned to give a legal authority to “Mahebere Kidusan” to legalize its activity for the purpose recruiting Woyane’s support as well as purge anyone who remain against woyane in the church throughout Ethiopia. This 36 pages proclamation which was signed by 15 archbishops of Aba GebreMedhin on Ethiopian Calander Nehase 12/11/1994 (EC August 2002) with Synod doc # 187/275/94 gave “Mahebere Kidusan” unprecedented authority to destroy the Ethiopian Orthodox Church from within. (See attached PDF)

    Since that time a high level delegate led by Daniel Kebret have been given limitless financial and diplomatic latitude with double mission to infiltrate the Diaspora Church’s primarily to reject the legitimate patriarch of Abuna Merkorios. If this initial plan fails to campaign for the Diaspora church’s to proclaim neutrality which of course is unheard of in the Orthodox Christian Faith for the last 2000 years. This clever tactic if successful provides the dilemma of an “Orthodox Church without Archbishops” a misnomer as it will create “Wefe Zerash” generation that forever excommunicate itself from its mother church. Anyone who calls for ‘neutrality’ knowingly or otherwise is practicing from the playbook of “Mahebere Kidusan” ultimately Aba Gebgremedhin and Woyanne. One can simply refers the truism of the 700 million strong orthodox family worldwide which phrases, ‘if one cannot recite his/her baptismal and archbishop’s name one cannot call him/herself an Orthodox Christian”. (But this should be left for a later date for broader discussion.)

    Seeing and calling for what it is, there is a contract on Ethiopia and the Orthodox Tewahedo Church as this priceless institution which defines the country we know staggers to behold. As Abuna Gorgorios once defined it, ‘the church that gave Ethiopia its faith, its language with fidel, its existence with freedom ……. ‘ therefore, to all of us the church and the country is the two faces of the same coin. For anyone to argue with the Editor of ER to restrain from exposing the sinister contract to destroy the church (and their by dismembering the nation of Ethiopia) is simply asking all of us to standby within the bound of artificial boundary and surrender everything that define us.

    My heart goes out to those young members of “Mahebere Kidusan” who unknowingly are complicit with the most evil alien ever to occupy our nation. Christ the Lord has given all of us the passage of repentance to join the everlasting mercy of his kingdom, and we shall pray for that day to come upon them. Today however, I am more concerned with millions of faithful of the church and the people of Ethiopia to make sure the agent of nation-killers are not left without measure.

    Long Live Ethiopia and her Church

  5. Oh, is Mahibere Kidusan an association which is officially established by the permission of the Holy Synod? I thought the other way. Thank you Ato Elias for letting us know the truth with bold evidence. So, this association should get the help of all the children of the church. I mean it. I was misinformed…thank you again.

  6. What is the matter with you, Elias? There is no relation between MK and the so called abune poulos. They have to work under the church leaders otherwise they will be banned from any kind of service. BTW, have you given a coin for the rehablitation of a monastry?

    What You guys dreaming of is all ethiopian have to come to the US and oppose woyannie and the church leaders. Cannt happen.

  7. I’m not saying much about. Because I know what is the message behind. It is from those who are against the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.

    As my grandfathers and before them have done, My father travelled on foot all over the religion places and lived there a Soul life punishing his flesh while getting a religion study and life.. He reached to Dima, Debre Elias, Geroum Elias, Debre Tabor, Gonder, Tembia, Axum, Lalibela and other places. It took him 24 years. I also did the same thing but just in the surrounding where I was born because of the situation was dramatically changed in my time. Modern school was in the corner and the way of life through this direction became popular and unstoppable. .

    The last 25/30 years the change in the world are too hudge. Back then only orthodox religion was the source of education and intelligence in Ethiopia. Right now we know what is going on in the country and abroad.
    I have read all the changes/improvements they made and posted right here. For that I have to thank them. If any one thinks, we have to steak with an idea, which is 2000 years old, this person needs to have another brain and different century. Our changes are gradually adopting with the situations that are damaging if change are not occurred. Look others’ change in their religion?
    So, the writer entitles to his idea, but readers will not take him serious. It must be from an enemy not a friend to the religion.

  8. Mahibere Mariam = yemariam mahiber not mariamoch yetesebesebubet
    Mahibere Mikael = yemikael mahiber not mikaeloch yetesebesebubut
    Mahibere Silasse = yeselasse mahibere not silassewech yetesebesebubet
    Mahibere Kidusan = yekidusan(yekidusu amlak,yekidist mariam,yekidus Mikael,yehulum kidusan mahiber yemitasebubet) NOT kidusanoch yetesebesebubet. Gebbah Ja,gebbah Bertu,etc (Amlak yemitastewulubet ayne libbona yisttachihu,lela min yibbalal).

  9. As a member of Mahibere Kidusan,thankyou Elias for posting this true document.What is new or negative from the posted document?It testifies that all condemnations against Mahibere Kidusan are false.These are our Objectives which save EOTC from her enemies.You all have to know our objectives by reading this document again and again.Have you got a word which says to protect the gov’t or a person?no.As you look at it,the goel is to save lives of Christians.The posted writing of bertu(above) is out of his heart,mind;It is his dream,out of truth,out of touch.Betru,I know what you are.For these objectives we members are standing.You have to know,we have to fight enemies of our Church until the end,Nobody even Devil can stop from these our objectives(these are the Plans of Our Almighty God).We can’t discourage by others’false and negative comments.These help us to confirm,to continue,to stick to our heavenly objectives,ok
    May God bless all of us for the accomplishment of His Plan
    There is single letter or word about your politics,your false dream,etc…on our document(Memeria)

  10. Selam brothers and sisters. Thanks Bertu what an eye openning. I was one of their hard die supporter. Know thanks God, I know their true identity. They are aginst the church. Work hard for their ambition. They are pharisees, who are aginst the true teaching of our holy church. Aginst the name of the lord Jesus. Aselech, reptead teaching of bla bla bla, hiwot yelelew temehertachew. they are agentes of Woyane who want to destroy our unity in the name of enat betechristian for so called geleltegnoch. Be aware of this pharisees tsere wongeloch. Awera dero lelit (morning) kechohe behuala kurat yesemawal alu, why? tsehay yemetewetaw be ersu chuhet selemimeslew (esu kalchohe tsehay (sun) yemeteweta ayemeselewem). Hagerachin specially addis ababa be protestant setewerer men seru ena neew ezih tesebsebew metew yemiamtatut?

    አውራ ደሮ ለሊት ከጮኅ በሁላ ይንጎራደዳል አሉ. ጸሐይ በእርሱ ጩሀት የምትወጣ እየመሰለው: እርሱ ካልጮሀ ጸሀይ የምትወጣ አይምስለውም:: እነዚህ የወንጌል መረዳት የለላቸው ሰሜታውያን ግልገል ፈሪሳውያኖች, ቤተክርስቲያንን ከቆሎ ትምህርት እስከ ሽምግልና ያገለገሉ አባቶችን ያዋርዳሉ, በርግጥ ለእናሱ (ለአባቶች) ሰለ ክርስቶስ መሰደድ ጸጋ ነው:: ያ የተለመደው ህይወት አልባ ድግግሞሽ አስልች ትምህርታችው ለአለፉት 17 አመት ያው ነው: ስሜት ብቻ:: በ እነርሱ የስሥጋ ሩጫ ሃገራችን በፕሮቴስታን ተወረረች, ከዛ እንደተሳካለት ደግሞ ከዚህ መጠው ያደናግራሉ:: ትምህርታቸውን ለማየት
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szpGZKC-FdE
    አሰዳቢዎች

  11. This is to Betru,
    First of all, you said there is a document PDF and we do not see any doc on your letter. However we Christians knows what is right and worng we are the suns of Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo Church. For today and tomorrow no matter you explian we are defending our church not individual or regiem that is not our concern at the moment. We will leave the politics for you please leave the chruch for us. As I do not know any thing about politics you may not know or little knowledge about chruch. So please calm down and think twice, I am sure you have been beniefited from this church so why are you become a torn for this church now. Please please let us not give a fredom to our enimes all of ethiopians sons and doughters of Ethiopian Tewahedo church please let us be united on at least on this issue we have seen politics they are broken down to manye picese becasue then all do one thing, they never call for God the almighty they thing they can do it by them selves. However on the issue of our faith please please just calm down and think about it specailly this time around there is in Ethiopia lot’s of inocent christinas slouther by muslim extirimist so please calm down and see the light.
    Thank you.

  12. Bravo Elias you have entirely exposed the basic reality of the Mahebere Kudusan anti Ethiopian orthodox destruction along with their legislative proposal that was written and approved by Tagay Paulos of the weyane appointed person.
    What is the difference between Addis legesse, tefera walwa, aba dula, Junedien, Lidetu , Maherbere kidusan members and other weayene servants that carries out weyane’s crime everyday. To me they all are the same that carries out weyane’s daily crime against human beings in Ethiopia. So the Ethiopian people have to fight back all these weyane hodam servants everywhere by any means possible to stop their daily destructive agenda.

    Mahbere kidusan is well known in Ethiopia with their name Mahebere Irkusan, since the Ethiopian people have clearly seen their destructive actions in orothodox churches, as side from their destruction duties in side orothodox churches, the so called Mahbere Irkusan have taken the order of Tagay Paulos to stop the public from praying for those hundreds Ethiopians civilians who died aftermath 2005 election that were shot and dead in the street of Addis by the weyane agazi forces. These so called Mahebere Irkusan members have announced in every church to stop praying for those individuals who died with merciless weyane agazi forces. So, the Ethiopian people in Ethiopia exactly know the undercover dirty duties of Maheber Irkusan and have always try to isolate them by any means possible in the society.

    The other part of Mahbere Irkusan is appointed to Diaspora with the command in chief of Tagay Paulos all over the world to accomplish their dirty destructive duties inside orothodox churches. They restlessly working to divert the attention of the orothodox followers using many falsified and machine fabricated reasons that are provided by the weyane major cadres in Diaspora. They own so much medias including radio shows, websites, paltalk rooms and so many other means to distribute their destruction agendas.
    Actually, the so called Mahberhe Irkusan are very knowing in opening a new churches in the name of orothodox religion in so many cities in Diaspora, particullrly they focus on cities that there is no orothodox church to ultimately accomplish their destructive agenda. Moreover they stricktly target college students that do not have enough awareness about their religion but believers of the orothodox religion. As a result they have been dividing the followers of the orthodox religion in a few places, At the same time they have been exposed by brave Ethiopians who are very concerned about their religion and who are opposing the coming of Tagay Paulos by breaking all the rules and regulations of the Ethiopian orothox. In some places the members of Mahbere Irkusan have been facing angery Ethiopians who are disappointed by the insider agents and elements of Tagay Paulos and dissatisfied by the daily gross human rights disrespect of Weyane.

    the weyane mafia groups supported by Aba Gebermedihin( tagay G/medhin). I wish other churches around Washington, dc and other states cleansed them selves from weyane supporter religious people. Especially, the so called weyane new cadre members who are organized them selves with the name MAHEBERE KIDUSAN are playing a magnificent role for weyane in dividing the orthodox followers through out the world. Since they are financially supported by weyane government they have all things including medias that are surrounded by radio show and website in order to preach the orthodox followers to accept the Patriarch Abune paulos and to silent the public from asking and discussing the major Ethiopian people proplems such as famine, lack of democracy, increase of inflation which comes from bad governance and bad policy of weyane that is organized by highly corrupted officials and members of weyane. In stead they consistently preach the people all the resolution can only comes from God, while God gives us the resolution on our hands to fight weyane and bring all justice and democracy for our people, so that our people can gradually illuminate our complex problems with the help of god.

    Lets all be aware of the bad role of Mabere Irkusan and lets all aware those ethiopians around our area about the dirty duties of Mabere Irkusan who are working for the weyane criminal party. lets at least say enough is enough…

    Lets not wait some resoultion would come from the sky and lets step up to contribute our part. Lets all stop the dirty duties of mahberhe kidusan everywhere by any means possible.

    Together we win!!!
    God Bless Ethiopia!!!

  13. as i know , mahiberre kidusan is working a great duty for ethiopian orthodox church. the asssociation has got the name Mahiberer kidusan because of it tells about the duty of “Tsadkan and kidusan.” so the name doesn’t belong to them and they have never said that they are kidusan; there fore, please don’t be a bad guy just think before you write some thing about somebody.

  14. Bertu:
    The copy of your post is appreciated.
    ———————————

    It is very important that there is some kind of well dedicated and informed watch group which put out correct history and information on the division of ETOC. Any time articles like the one on “Mahber Kidusan is out. It becomes THE INFORMATION until disputed by another knowledgeable and trust worthy authority/writer/individual or group.

    The politics behind the religion is very disgusting, and the first original sin was when Derg assassinated Abune Teflos. The next confusing circumstance is when you have an exiled patriarch who has not had authority directly on followers in Ethiopia. Another is, t Aba Paulos’ close relation with this regime and his possible ethnic politics behind it.

    The more people have real information the better. To speak for my self, by the time I read all 13 pages and the other documents, it will be a while. It might even be a one sided document.

  15. Oh, Thank you Ato Elias for letting the people that Mahibere Kidusan is an association which is officially established by the permission of the Holy Synod. Thank you Ato Elias again for letting us know the truth with bold evidence. So, this association should get the help of all the children.

  16. #8 Yes you so right there is Yemariam mahiber on the name of Mariam yes there is Silasewoch Mahiber on the name of Silasewoch but Mahibere Kidusan, Yekidusan Mahiber? or Like #14 D daniel says Yetsadikan Mahiber? who is tsadiqan is he a saint or the ppl? what ever you come with it all refers you the ppl who calls yourself Kidus or Tsadikan. We are not talking about poltics but the truth about you or me or all ethioorthodocs we belive.

    አንድ መቀሌ ውስጥ የተጫጩ ልጆች በዚ ምክንያት ጋብቻቸው ተሰርዙዋል፡ እሱም ቤተሰቦቹም የድሮው ኦርቶዶክስን የሚከተሉ ሲሆን እሱዋ ግን ይሄንኑ መጤ ሃይማኖት (ኦርቶቤንጤ) ማህበረ ቅዱሳን ስለምትከተል በዛ ምክንይት ፈረሰ። በዚህ አጋጣሚ ግን የሱዋም ቤቴብ ይሄን መጤ ሃይማኖት በጭራሽ ይቃወማሉ። እነ #14 ገብረምናምንም ገና ልገና ትግሬ ስለሆንኩኝ ማህበረ ቅዱሳን የጠቅላላ ህዝብህ እንዳልተቀበለው እወቅ። ሌላ የግድ ለመመሳሰል እንዲህ ለማለት ተፈልጎ ነው እያላችው ቃሉን ለመጠማዘዝ አትሞክሩ። ከቤንጤ ባሳችው ህዝቡን እየዋሻችው ለመገለባበጥ።

    ሌላው #12 እስላም ቴረሪስት አልክ? ይሄ እኮ ነው ሌላ ስራ የላችው ሰዎችን መከፋፈል አገራችንን በሃይማኖት ማጣላት። ዛሬ በሶማሊያ ክልል (ኦጋዴን ላይ) እስላም የሆነውን ብቻ በጠበል ከኤይድስ ይድናንል እያላችው ስንት እስላሞችን ወደ ማህበረ ቅዱሳን እንዲገቡ ህመሙ የሌለበትን አለው “ጠበል ያድንሃል አሁን ጸድተሃል ቅዱሳንን ተቀላቀል” እያላችው እናንተ እና ቤንጤ ስራችሁን እየሰራችው ነው። መቼ ነፍሳችው አይማርም

  17. Mahebere kidusan is well organized group which is being totally controlled by tegerians and some selfish hodams who are coperating with tagadalayi paulos to exploite and later destroy an anncient ethiopia’s orthodox tewahedo church for the simple reason they got plots of land to build ground plus house and other benefits from the church. Here we do not deny the role of mahaber kidussa to defend the church from froeign menafekanse by teaching the coming generation the true God’s word, but on the other hand, mehaber kidussan is the true ally of weyane [TPLF] to destroy ethiopia. Mehaber kidussa is the center of the middle class people who have the minimium of first degree from different universities, but they are serving not the God but an enemy of God ,an enemy of EOTC, an enemy of EOTC ‘s followers who have bruned somany churches and killed the church’s followers. So sooner of later this organization will be responsible for the whole destruction of this anncient nation along with TPLF. May almigthy God save EOTC from an evile’s trajon horses. amen

  18. I don’t know much about “Mahibere Kidusan.”Hence no comment on this religious organization.What I know,for certain,is that the Woyannes’s rigime has a sinister plan how to infiltrate the every church in general.
    I came to learn this ten years ago when I saw the party’s program given to every member.It clearly states that the Woyanne party must use religion as a means of politics.
    The other point is that at the office of Aba Diablos there are a number of the state security agents assigned by the regime.It was one of those agents who shot down the nationalist monk at the pedeastal of Estifanos church in Addis Abeba.
    Therefore, it’s common knowledge that not only the Orthodox church but all denominations of churches are infested with Woyannes’spies.I for one, don’t trust even the monks,priests and Bishops.Do you know the role played by Russian Orthodox priests in passing vital information to the KGB? How about our Priests? I’m in doubt.

  19. selam elias;

    yes, who else do expose any entity against Ethiopia other than
    ethiopian review?

    As always your passion, integrity, demand for the truth is above most web sites. This has been for a long time up to now and for sure will continue for a long time to come.

    some claim they are against woyane. But for me they are only against an individual meles. I smell a rat.

    But thanks for my reliable source ER true evidence is always available to me. keep it up as such responsibly exposing anti Ethiopian and its real institutions.

    wey gud

  20. Thank you so much for your investigative work. As Bertu said, when it comes to understanding the current situation facing our church there is no one like you.

    The significance of this document is for all those churches who are being ransacked by these thugs, it will arm everyone by providing a legal defense to the legal formation of their church.

    Most churches in North America and elsewhere are formed as a 501-C congregational instead of Hierarchical church (i.e. Directly from the Synod itself). Therefore, when Mahebere Kidusan attempts to overpower these churches, the congregation has full legal right to go to court to expel them as agent of the Hierarchal authority of the Ethiopian Synod.

    For those of you who are being tormented by MK, I urge you to seek legal counsel using this document and further litigate it to teach them a lesson.

    FYI: In Ethiopia Mahebere Kidusan are also known as MAA KEE, meaning the soot from the charcoal ashes.

  21. Dear Elias:
    Let the truth says….
    I, as a memeber of the association, thank you to put the truth, the copy of an orginal document (Legistlation of MK). Unfortunately you failed to achieve your goal. Just go thru the above comments. Most of them are happy becuase you let them to know the reality. You are the first person to promote the association world wide… a good start…… keep it up…. disclose the facts and let your readers evaluate the truth visa-vis Elias

  22. Aba Gebremedhe (a.k.a. Tagaye Paulos),together with his fake Senodose and Mahebere Kidusan are working day and night to keep the Faschist regime of Meles Zenawi in power. They are using the EOTC as a tool to andvance their evil deeds.

  23. Dear readers

    As of me,this is not more than a personal opinion.Anybody have the right to write about what he thinks…still the facts have to be verified by independents to be considered as true claim …I have the final word for my brothers and sisters..please don’t rush to a conclusion with out sufficient,dependable sources and before realizing the intentions of the writer(what if he is one of ***** guys).

    peace be with all of you

  24. በመጀመሪያ የዚህ ጽሁፍ አቅራቢ ትልቁ ችግሩ የማህበረ ቅዱሳንን ስራ ጠጋ ብሎ በማየት ምን ያክል ለዚህች ቤተ ክርስቲያን አገልግሎት በጽናት የቆመና ብዙወቹ በዘረኝነት ለማይገባ ጥቅም በቆሙበት በዚህ ሰአት ለቤተ ክርስቲያኒቱ ክብር መጠበቅ እንደ ቤተ ክርስቲያን ልጅነቱ በእግዚአብሔር ሀይልና ረዳትነት የሚችለውን የሚሰራ ማህበር መሆኑን መረዳት የቸገረው ነው:: አንዳንድ አስተያየት ሰጭወችም ሆንን ጸሀፊው ከመተቸታችን በፊት ቀርቦ ስለማህበሩ ስራ ማየትና መረዳት:: ለሰወች ጥቅም ቅድሚያ ከምንሰጥ ይልቅ ለቤተ ክርስቲያን ጥቅምና እግዚአብሄር የሚከብርበትን ስራ ብንሰራና ብንጽፍ ጥሩ ይመስለኝኣል::

  25. Mr. Editor, I have an admiration and respect for your good jobs that you have done.The reason why you posted this doen’t really make any sense for me. Because it had been obvious that this Association(Mahber Kidusan) has been formed in this way. Some of us may know it and others may not, what is the big deal? If you believe that you can make a political case from this that is your choice.Some of the comments told me our level of judgement, and I feel sad. Our country expects and deserves better than this.Mahibere Kidusan is successfully working in harmony with Ethiopians, and that is all we need.Finally,to whom it mah concern, Mahebere Kidusan is currently building it’s main office in Addis Ababa Ethiopia.It is a big project which demands the contribution of all Christain Ethiopians.So, please visit http://www.eotc-mkidusan.org/ and Amerian center website http://www.mahiberekidusan.org/ for more information and donate some money to finish the construction.

  26. Thank u elias for bringing this issue. i just wanna say a word for those innocent followers of mahibere kidusan. i know some of u possessed with mahibere kidusan and u are so close to worship it. not only the name, but u also believe that the leaders of the mahibere like God sent angels.

    But, u have to open your eyes and seek the truth. whoever tells about the truth about mahibere kidusn labelled as either a politician or menafik. amazing. so, do your realy blieve that mahibere kidusan is the savior of the church. if u realy see it, it is the opposite.

    look, what the leadership of mahibere kidusan saying… you shuldn’t say anything about ethiopia or talk about the suffering of the people of ethiopia. when was started to be considered as a sin to love and die for your country? then abune petros who was murdered by mussolini and sacrifice his life for his religion and country was a politician? his death was in vain? what about all our forefathers who fought for their country and religion? if it was like todays mahibere kidusan our fathers wouldn’t have kept our country and orthodox church and passed it to us.THEY WOULD HAVE SOLD OUT OUR RELIGION AND OUR COUNTRY A LONG TIME AGO.

    Then why? why mahibere kidusan preaches aba paulos?not hard to answer.yeah/because synod in ethiopia=aba paulos. like the parliament is a rubber stamp for meles so do the so called synod in ethiopia for aba paulos. mahibere kidusan knows this. so,,now we can safely say,mahibere kidusan is the agent of aba paulos and woyanne.

    Don’t be fooled..do not serve the illegal aba paulos synod. wake up. i have many friends that realized the truth and stopped hurting their religion and their country. do not be part of the aba paulos machine,mahibere kidusan which is funded by woyanne to silence true orthodox ethipians. in return the woyanne fascist regime will be in power as long as possible.

    i know the truth hurts. but that is the truth. we have a choice,to blindly being agent of woyanne,or seeing the truth and stand with the people..come back to the truth.
    GOD BLESS ETHIPIA.

  27. Selam Lehulachihum

    Dear Elias thank you for your great job, you introduce Mahber kidusan for those who did not the word till now. Can you make it pls current news again? Let me introduce my self: I am member of Mahber Kidusan for the last 11 yeas, starting from my first year university study till now. If the God give me strength I will also be the member of this Services Association. In the last 11 years in addition to learning the dogma and kinona of my church, I learnt how my church is precious, how our mother church play vital role in for existence of Ethiopia and etc….

    My beloved Ethiopians,Mahber kidusan currently work effectively in the following areas:

    1. Preaching the youths especially who joined training center, collage and Universities. We have more than 70,000 students in 170 gubeat who attend their church education parallel to their regular university. The students learn the religion by curriculum.
    2. Helping Gedamat and Abent Timhrt bet: Currently more than 67% of Our monasteries and Abent Timhirt Bet have faced different problems. For these places the Mahber Kidusan work day and night. Today thanks God we have many monstries who are making many activities for their expenses
    3. Answering any questions in relation with our church: Currently many people write ‘fiction’ about our church in false evidence or without evidence. Mahber kidusan always try his best to answer the question by asking fathers, and by searching other evidences. In other words by doing proper research by its professionals, we are answering the questions. For example Why our calendar different from Gorgonian? Is there any Muslim King in 7th century? From where our letters come? Many question … Mahber kiduasn answer these kind of question in research conference, Exhibition and publishing article
    4. Trying to introduce the technology in the our church;
    For the real activities of Mahber Kidusan the 40 million people at beloved country will be witness. Not those separated from the church by their weakness. We will pray for those who left their house to come again

    If any one wants to join these Associations please try to visit the following websites

    Egziabher Agarchin yitbik

    Amen

    BT

  28. Hello dear Fellow Ethiopians, before we judge peoples, let us see things from left and right. Before we criticize MK, let us know what it really is. It is a blind shame to say “MK takes the Asrat Bekurat of EOTC members” As far as I know, MK only takes 1% from only its members and it has nothing to do with the well known 10% Asrat bekurat unless we closed our ears to hear the truth.

    Ok, if the case is raised for some political gain, that is another issue, but if it is raised from the Religion caring point of view, let us be based on truth and realities., otherwise we will remail failing from achieving our goals. Ok, peoples may have their own objections and supports ut it will be nice if all are based on realities.
    I have never heard an MK member calling him/herself “being Kidusan”. There is a bold reason why the association was named MK and it has nothing to do with members status.

    There are so many lies in the article but it will be waste of time if I raise and discuss it here as even the writer knows the reality. He/she only raised it here to get innocent peoples confussed.
    I remember we had enough discussions at Warka and DSK-Mariam web sites some years ago about “Who is MK” but at the end there was no any clear understanding as people were argueing blindly knowing the facts but hiding them to be told.
    As a christian, I would try to find the realities and look for spiritual ways to solve the problems before I got to labling people, but now a days our politics is infiltrating in our church and sport and is hard to differentiate them and lets wait and see as TIME always tell/show the truth unlike people.

    Wish all the best to our church and its followers and open heart to our enemies who hate us without knownig us.

    Happy new year to all Ethipians!!!!

  29. So called Mahebere Kidusan are no less than terrorists. They have been pain in every church i went. Well Do you see the harvest of peace in both LA Mariam churches after they get ride of them? Atlanta Mariam did the same thing. Daniel Kebret attempted many things but failed. Churches in Dallas beware. a few agents of Mhebre Kidusan hve been spotted in Houston Medhanealem. My advise get ride of them before it is too late. They are the Talibans.

  30. Let me give you fair analysis.
    Mahbere Kidusan is a an Orthodox Reformist Group who successfully helped our church to abort an Ill spirited reformation backed by frustrated protestants. It was a well done job. One thing is true; there will be civilian victims in any kind of legitimate war. Mahbere Kidusan may need to confess this some time in the future.

    The problem with MK is not as in its history and background but it is in its inconsistency to its original reason of service. This problem is expressed in many ways such as
    1. Its failure to work with Sunday school members effectively.
    2. Its tendency to discourage and paralyze other church groups and Sunday schools who could outshine them positively.
    3. Its lack of focus on promoting the core beliefs of the church as it did in the past. Its service is over stretched to the extent that it reaches to nowhere.
    4. Its lack of original passion to serve, concept of selflessness and believe in God’s role. Unfortunately bureaucratic thinking took over spiritual wisdom.
    5. It is inability to create more Dn. Dejene Shiferaw, Dn. Daniel Kibret ..etc.
    6. Its fatal error is yet to come since its started to act independently, ignore their deliberately and become actors of administrational fights.

    My fair Judgment is this:- Mahbere Kidusan will freeze if not cease to serve the church not by the points listed on the “What is Mahbebre Kidusan?” articles but by its new style of spiritual service .
    Thanks for Reading

  31. This is one of the most astounding discovery to come to light.

    Thank you Betru from the bottom of my heart,the children of the Orthodox church will forever be indebted to you. And thank you Elias as always for your brave stance, no wonder Ethiopian Review is the undisputed king of online journalism in finding the truth especially regarding Ethiopia.

    The Ethiopian people have long known this group to be the fifth column of AGAZI army, camouflaged in bible. Now we have the actual proof document for all the world to see on how this group got legal status with unbelievable power within the church. Furthermore, for the first time in the church’s long history a full authority has been granted to an outside entity on Synod level. Just Imagine Aba Paulos summoning 15 archbishops from the Synod pulpit to grant the Maryam Mahebere, or the Gabriel Mahebere the same legal status. That my friend will never happen.

    The reason is simply, Mahebere Kidusan is not a religious organization but a political and financial organization similar to all Woyane companies designed to fulfill Meles’s ultimate agenda.

    As I have commented in the past, this is a political organization wrapped with the bible cloth, very much like the old colonialist who came to subjugate Africa. It is an organization which has now promoted itself above the church , and is cleverly used by Woyane to control the youth. The entire nation knows that the legitimate Senbet Group cannot even have the money to buy Shama for daily service let alone have the audacity to build skyscrapers in Addis Ababa or open satellite branch office worldwide to spread Aba Gebrmedhin’s kingdom.

    Please stop for a moment and realize what is unfolding before your eyes. I want everyone to save this important link for the future:
    http://www.ethiopianreview.com/content/3972, in order to access the Synod doc for all legal matters to combat these thugs.
    We got them with the will of the almighty we will overcome them, please spread the word.

    God Bless Ethiopia!

  32. Dear Elias,
    thank you very much. what you put in the news are some of the truth. I was the member of this association for the last 12 years. If you need concret evidence please let me know. I can send you thier mission in north America from Buffalo to Dallas Ontario to Vancuver (what they did their future strategies and the agents in all the states.

    Peace for our chrch and country

  33. MK doing very good job as I saw in my area ( in remot south Ethoipia).I saw them helping the church , restablishing church school which was seased . If they are destroyers as you narreted , why they keep helping church school ?( they are not teaching there , but church fathers .) They help “Gdamat” , why they help them ? .I didn’t see MK’s media center propaget information against our church teachings . I trust them b/c I myself saw their works , not by somebody’s narration . IF they are enemy of the church show me practical evidence , not simple talk . like , KELETAT ANDEKEN MARIM TENAGERY ………… NOT LIKE this, concret ! where ? when ? and who ?
    YOU (unknown to me) allways writting bad things about MK .WHO are you ? post web for us ,let us know you. Do you realy like my church ?
    Are you religous or poletician ?
    GOD BLESS YOU ALL .

  34. In the name of God. Amen.
    Dear friends, It is so shame to read a false accusation about M-K. In the first place, M-K was not in excitence in 1975 G.C. which is a very big lie. You can ask anyone including Elias’s friend Mengistu Hailemariam. Second M-K gotn nothing with Weyane at all, again peole you can ask Elais’s Friends meless Zenawi. M-K is for Ethiopian Orthodox church. Ask your family back home, ask those independent Church fathers, go to their website(they have three or four websites to teach the gospel, not lie, go to their office both in USa and Ethiopia..spie them and you will get surpsired what these yougn dedicated, very well educated Christians are doing for the church. Who was in Jimma during that massacre, is that you mr. Lier?Elias? you tell me sir.? who was in Hararer when those innocent monks where massacred 15 yrs ago? is that you or Abun paulos or melesse? you tell me. They were this young dedicated Christians sacrifying their life, to help the victims.Who was at those churches during the fire? is that you Mr. Lier? or your friends who are in confort zone in northen America easy to demonize innocent hard working good Ethiopians? Where were you when they have their Exhibition in Washignton DC?in Dallas Texas? Whast good thing u ever done for Ethiopia except demonizing good people in your website. My recommendation for you is to have some Holy Water because you are a demon. I am tired and sick of all these old politicians (who are lossers)who put our country in the hands of Derge and now to their best friend to the Weyanes. There is a blood of millions of Ethiopians in your hand!thats why you guys are lying, crying….The “ehapas”, “Derges”, ‘weyanes”, “Feudals”, etc. We need a new generation of Leaders now. You guys need to retire and give up instead of talking lies about hard working ppl like M-K.
    Libona Yistachiwe Abbo. beshitenoch nachihu…just not elias ..but all his generation who killed the Ethiopian Church leader, the king, all those educated Ethiopians in the seventies…I am glad i was very very young not to see all the massacrs you guys did…not you guys are trying to accuse M-K for your own crime..Lol so funny..lol

    God Bless Ethiopia.

  35. Dear Elias,please stick to your word and truth,truth is truth.why do you give your response like the previous when these persons are saying that Mahibere kidusan is woyane?Because you and all don’t forget that you has given your comment when the Meskel Square’s preaching conference of Mahibere kidusan was banned.At that time,you have said that woyane together with Abba Paulos banned that big gubae.you are right,I agree.Not only this,more three times,Abba Paulos tried to ban this association but he was unsuccessful.In addition,Abba Paulos accused Mahibere kidusan in the court opposing the construction of its office.This was not successful,since this association has founded by Almighty God,plus it has big support from church fathers and the faithful.When its members and students of Addis abeba unvirsity entered into Kidist Mariam Church,Abba Paulos gave for Federal Police.MK remembers it with sad.I can write so many evidences which testify that Woyane and Abba Paulos are standing agianst this association.Why do you dig out these evidences whether these are true or not.You can telephone now.For the sake of service,it is true,it has got official recognition from the synod by great effort of the Church fathers and its members NOT Abba Paulos.Unfortunately,When MK tries to bring Church unity,this kind of baseless(shameless) condemnation came.Ok No problem,we have accept as a temptation,even we have expected more than this.
    Aleka,Bertu,Hagos,Ewunetu,…,please ask the peoples of Ethiopia including the courts,students,sunday schools,monasteries,… who can give ample evidences about the true nature of MK not persons who live in Washington.
    At this time,all the children of Eotc have become members of Mahibere kidusan since they can see change by the services of its members.No body can stop its journey since it has been established by Almighty God.
    Long live for EOTC with its historical and religious heritages(relics)

  36. Most of you are filled wid blind hatered. I knew dis from your comments.Do not think like politician act as a christian. stop ‘ yemender wore’ and trace the facts.one of the comment posted by Ja revealed that it does not have a sense of christisnity.As it is stated in the bible “Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry” James 1-19. before you said so you could have asked and understood the meaning ‘mahibere kidusan’. I leave the assingment for you to ask and know. most of the comments did not show shrewed or witty personality. nobody tried to genuinly ask why mahiber kidusan formed, what they are doing, what is their goal. do no make a connection with woyane heedlessly.it does not benefit none of us. let’s love each other. our enemies are growing faster while we are ruining our church and our country. strive for unity than diversion. our country’s bad politics leads our relgious unity to be distructed. everything will change, leaders will be replaced, politics will be different, but if we loose our church nothing could be replaced. our country will end up to like Egypt or Turky. let’s leave politics for the politician and unite for the sake of our church. pray to have a good heart that can always think good about others.
    ” How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity!”
    God bless our country and protect our church

  37. Hello Ethiopian diaspora!HAPPY NEW YEAR! I am orthodox christian. I once was a member of Mahibere kidusan. I am not now. I know a lot of stuff about them. They have their website to read about them. I am ashamed of you who oppose the group. I don’t mean they are perfect but compare to me , the sinner, they are. You will appreciate their devotion to God and the church. They rose timely by God to combat not politicians but enemies of the church, and of course to maintain the Puuuuuuuuurrrrrreeeeeesssttt teachings of the church. They also protect college-university students from heresies of protestants and others. they support different monastries from being closed. They, in general, work to transfer the traditions of the chruch to the next many generations to come in the face of fierce globalization. We owe them appreciation. I am not surprised, however, that MK is opposed for God, Lord, Jesus Christ, Holy Savior, Himself was opposed. That was bound to happen. I wish i would rejoin them soon. I hope you will all make your mind up and join the noble mission they are for. IIIIIMMMMAAAAGGGIIINNNEEEE what is at stake. We are drawn into globalization where we will lose our TRADITION, RELIGION, IDENTITY to western ideology. “KOME BLEN ENASB”
    Jesus Christ is the God of love. We are not supposed to judge others for their mistakes. Individuals may make mistakes but the church shouldn’t pay their mistakes. The church will live to the end of the earth for She was founded on the Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ. We are like shadow on the earth. We may die today, tomorrow or anytime soon not longer than 40, 50, 60 years from now, we never know. Just for this short period. Let’s love one another. We should always be by churchs side not on Her way. We can’t afford to be on Her way or we will lose our lives to hell.
    “yichi betekristian bemenafikan ena beraswedadoch yetamesech ansoat begna!” “tew wegene!!!” “tew!”
    Conclusion:
    1. MK is a society of people like us to commemorate Saints of the Church.
    2. Let’s come to learn about the church and organizations of Hers before we rush for judgement.
    3. Politics can’t have no room in the church and be 100% sure MK is not for it.
    4. If You love your country and trust in God, then stretch your hands and pray to God.
    5. Don’t do anything that may harm your Church or country.
    6. May God bless you all and Our Motherland, Ethiopia. Amen
    Endale S
    VA, USA

  38. Believe me most of the people who doesn’t like Mahbere Kidusan is those “Tehadso” who can’t change the entire church member and destroy Tewahido, and those who are the warshiper of their blood (resist) so please don’t give them value for what they said and will say. It is just an old enemy. Too bad they can’t take over the church and will not. This Mahber was established by God to do what he wants and he will dissolved it when the time comes till then get over it.

  39. I Love Mahibere kidusan!
    Long Live to it since it is found by God, i think
    Dear those that try to spoil it and give Mahber Kidusan different names, better to stop your action if you are incapable of doing like this mahiber for Ethiopia. Mahibere kidisan, as I think is the One crucial to present day Ethiopia that tries to hold all the idntities of our country and try to transfer to the coming generation.so far as I alive, I shall stop my Music and Join a church-Mahibere Kidusan’s Churh, Orthodox Church!
    We many youngsters outside Ethiopia are with Mahibere Kidusan, We dislike those who dislike Mahibere Kidusan!
    Jonny

  40. #26 Tesfa said it best. FOR ALL OF YOU THAT CLAIM TO HAVE CONCERN ABOUT YOUR COUNTRY AND YOUR RELIGION, PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO WHAT HE AND HIS COMRADES ARE TRYING TO TELL YOU. “What is the big deal!”, have you paid attention to the American politics lately, Republicans can do any blunder in the world and when they get caught, they come up with all kinds of reasons, and they say what is the big deal. You see! our so called educated, religious, concerned and rich “republicans” mahibere kidusan and woyane have learned a thing or two from the American politics. They rob our Churches in the diaspora blind and they build their tower of babel in Addis Ababa, they open their businesses, hotels, restaurants, seven elvens with monies they stole from us who are asleep and are throwing our hard earned money at them. These hoodlums have overrun and stolen churches that were built by blood, sweat and tears. Yet, their staggering ignorance and arrogance is revealed when they tell us ‘WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL, IF WE ROB YOU!, YOU CAN GO AND BUILD ANOTHER CHURCH, BETTER YET WHY DON’T YOU SEND MONEY THROUGH OUR WEBSITE SO WE CAN FINISH OUR NEW BUILDING IN ADDIS ABABA’. Bertu and a few others had given us the true picture of these vagabonds and their bosses with documented evidence, yet some of us are still having a hard time getting thru our thick heads. Let us wake up and smell the coffee, our Churches are being robbed both in Ethiopia and the Diaspora, we are being robbed, because we believe the money we give to our Churches is being used for the prupose of that Church. We are dupped into beleiving that we are giving to God and he will take care of it, we were wrong. Mahibere Kidusan and Woyane is playing us like a Harp using our own funds, and they are calling us names, such as Mehayem, Menafike, etc. Let us dry the stream of money from which they steal and teach them a thing or two. Let us not give our hard earned money to anyone or for that matter any Church. Let us appointe a few (four or five) of our own people and ask them to give us the current expenses of the Church, after thoroughly inspecting that, let us contribute that much money every month and pay the bills. Whatever we had in the bank before now should be secured and stay in the bank. Let us see if the likes of Mahibere Kidusan and Woyane stay in our Churches any longer. If they are real Christians and they love God and their fellow Christians as they claim they will stay and serve; if they love our monies they will starve and will depart where they can feed themselves. LET US STARVE THESE ARROGANT BLOOD SUCKERS AND SEE IF THEY STILL CALL US MAHAYEM!

  41. Hello dear brothers above and the initiator of this discusion
    First of all I want to remind you that they did not say they are Kidusan rather an association of whom gathered in the name of kidusan/saints, please go through the website for more. Second I would like to ask you one QUESTION what was the responsibility of those bishops (Abatoch) when they came to this service? as to me to be the shepherd of the people. I did not see or heard of a shepherd, who flee living the herd for wolf to save his flesh, is that what Jesus teach? A shepherd should die to save his herd. The other thing is why they flee living us for the wolf, as I know they are all those who aid died for this world, so did they afraid that being snatched of killed in soul. So please don’t try to miss lead us, we don’t have a shepherd who left us for a wolf to save his flesh. What so ever he did or who ever he is, its by the will of God that Our current Bishop come to this so please don’t try to insult him. It is not us who curs or bless him its God he will give him the justices when the time comes.

    Let God bless our country, and protect our church, amen

  42. I am saddened to read how gulluble some of you are. Who is to say God put Paulos in power? how did you know that? Woyane put Poulos there. Did God put Woyane in power? maybe! read your bilbles, God used to raise evil empires like the babylonians to destroy Israel when Israel gets out of hand. With Mengistus masacare and all the blood and gore that went on for 18 years why wouldn’t God put Woyane an evil junta into power. Woyane did not have a dream of staying in power when it came out of the bushes, it wanted to rob what it could and run back to Tigray and start its own Tigrian empire, but gulluble and sleepy people let it organize and gain all this power to divide and opress them and become worse than even what they replaced. Anybody that can understand Amharic knows “mahibere kidusan” does not mean “association in the name of saints” It means “YEKEDUSAN MAHEBER” which they are trying to deny, as they deny anything and everything when their lies are exposed. Anybody that call himself Kidus must consider everyone else Erkus, and this has been proven time and time again with the so called mahibere kidusan. They are no kidusan, they are Erkusan. They call God’s name in vain and pretend to practice religion while they lie, decieve, rob and destroy the Orthodox faith and the Church by infltrating the innocent and religious and trusting Christians. They do not worship God, they worship the Devil. You can tell by their works. Action speak louder than words. They work for paulos, paulos works for woyane. Where is God in all this??? to them religion is just a mask like the netela they role themselves in so they could look kidusan in and around the Church. Outside the Church, the mask comes off and they show their true self with horns on their heads and red eyes, they just don’t show their tails for fear someone might chop them off. For anyone to stand for this arrogant and ignorant bunch that believe they are intelligent, highly educated know it alls; it is a crime against the Christian faith. These are thugs organized by their master thugs who have devised a plan to destroy the Orthodox Church from the inside out and divide and destroy the Diaspora. You don’t believe it? read what is written on the link below, if you dare, and change your mind and ways while you can. Confess your sins and follow the one true and only GOD of hope and redemption. The Christian faith is the only faith that teaches about hope, because of Christ who has given his dear life for our sins. We should not forsake that by occupying our time dealing with rabbish stories as paulos, woyane, kidusan, etc.

  43. It is easy to comment.why don’t go to Ethiopia and see what mahberekidusan did and is doing.seeing is beliving.if you don’t know how it is working,it is better to say nothing about this mahber.

  44. ሰላም ወገን
    ዘመኑ ቀርቡኦልና ንስሃ ግቡ!!! ይህ ሁሉ ከምን የተነሳ መሰላችሁ? የእምነት ማነስ,ሁሉም እኔን ስሙ በማለቱ አምላከን መስማት በማቆማችን ነው
    “….ማንም ወንድሙን ቢያሰናክል….”የሚል የመጵሃፍ ቃል ስላለ ሁላችንም የምንሰጠውን ማስረጃ እርግጠኝነቱን እንወቅ
    መድሃኒአለም እኝኣንም ሃገራችንንም ሃይማንኖታችንን ይጠብቅ!!!

  45. Besme Ab WoWold WoMenfesKidus Ahdu Amlak Amen!!!

    To my brothers and sisters,please let’s pray for Unity, Peace and Love.

    God Bless Ethiopia and her children with his infinite Grace!!!

    Amen,

    Wo Sebhat LeEgziAbher LewoLaditu Dingil

  46. it is an ethiopian church organization its goal to bring the entire old blief church to modern type witchcraft,voodoo.make sure the lost jerusalem history to come back once again to 21st modern world and misrapt the advance bible.

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