About Miracles

800 years ago, King Lalibela wanted to create a new Jerusalem, which Saladin reclaimed from the crusaders in 1187. Because his people were denied access to the Holy Land, pilgrims from Ethiopia and the small Christian states along the Nile would be able to worship there. The stream bubbling past the city was christened the Jordan, and the hill overlooking it Mount Tabor. It was in this place that they chiseled out churches directly into the stone bedrock. 11 churches, connected by tunnels.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/0,1518,473358,00.html


Ancient superstition is woven into the teachings of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. So much so that people with knee injuries or dying of HIV/Aids will refuse medications in favor of Holy Water.

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1258762,00.html?f=rss

It is practices like these that show evidence that the church is keeping this country in poverty.The church also forces over 60 non-working weekday holy-days, no working on Sabbath day, over 160 of no-protein fasting and continues to this day to preach that spending money is a sin and the poor man shall goto heaven.

This is one of the biggest hurdles this country must deal with. Not the people's faith or religion, but their church.