The government and stakeholders are exerting effort to revive the language but still need to do more in supporting scholars to write, disseminate and translate the Geez language. The Third National ...

Armed with a bamboo ink pen and a steady hand, Ethiopian Orthodox priest Zelalem Mola carefully copies text in the ancient scriptural language Geez from a religious book onto a goatskin parchment.

Every year, Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Christians celebrate a special holiday on September 28, (would have been on September 29, had it been a leap year) called Meskel. Meskel is a Geez word; ...

Translation of an ancient Geez text that describes the transfer of the Ark of the Covenant from Jerusalem to Ethiopia and thereby establishes that the Kings of ...

For the 10 million Coptic Christians of Ethiopia, one of the spiritual high points of the year is the feast of St. Gabriel the Archangel. Last week 100,000 pilgrims made their way to the shrine of St.

A new range of mobile phones has just gone on sale in Ethiopia, with the onscreen menu in Amharic, and the ability to send SMS text messages in the Ge'ez script - used for Amharic and other languages ...

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The history of the Axum Empire and Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. The two Christian missionaries that showed up in the ancient northeastern African empire of Axum in the fourth century could not ...