By Jane Lampman
The Christian Science Monitor
Can the ‘spiritual DNA’ of a community be altered?” That’s the question posed in a Christian video called “Transformations.”
Kenyan pastor Thomas Muthee is convinced that it can be. In 1988, he and …
Yearly Archives: 1999
Targeting cities with ‘spiritual mapping,’ prayer
Posted in Ethiopia News
Historical letters at the National Archives of Ethiopia
Letters by Etege Menen Ras Mengesha Lij Iyassu Atse Tewodros Zewditu Menelik II Etege Taytu Atse Yohanes…
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Asrat Woldeyes: an extraordary life
By Jonathan Steele
I WAS LYING gravely ill in the flat of a Royal Air Force doctor in Addis Ababa when I first heard someone mention the name of Asrat Woldeyes, or simply Asrat as he was always known. Even …
Going the Distance: The Haile Gebreselassie story
By Lee Nichols
Ten thousand meters is a pretty long distance to run (6.2 miles, for us Americans). But it’s nothing compared to the distance, both figurative and literal, that separates the lives of Haile Gebreselassie and Leslie Woodhead.
The …
Human waves fall as war aims unfold
By David Hirst in Tsorona, on the Eritrean-Ethiopian border
Guardian
Six weeks after the battle of Tsorona, the bloodiest yet of this desert ‘border’ war, Ethiopian soldiers still lie unburied on the baking plain, just yards from Eritrean trenches; an …
Ethiopia Across the Red Sea and Indian Ocean
Dr. Richard Pankhurst
May 14, 1999
1 Ethiopian-Indian Relations in Ancient and Early Medieval Times
Contacts between the lands which became to be known as Ethiopia and India date back to the dawn of history. The two countries, though geographically …
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History of Northern Ethiopia – and the Establishment of the Italian Colony or Eritrea
Dr. Richard Pankhurst
First published as an article in the Addis Tribune newspaper in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 19 February 1999.
1 Ancient Times
Since time immemorial the area which is now called Eritrea played an important role within the …
Is Professor Asrat an Ethiopian First or an Amhara?
By Fikre Tolossa
January 1999
Now that Professor Asrat Woldeyes is a free man, it seems that there is a confusion about his real identity. Quite a number of people think that he is an Amara first and Ethiopian second. …
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