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Ethiopia: Coptic and Ethiopian Orthodoxy churches sign truce

Posted 20 July 2007 22:10 GMT 1 · Written by Ndesanjo Macha

Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa, Ethiopia, History, Religion

The end of two decades of tension ^[1] between the Coptic Orthodoxy and the Ethiopian Orthodox churches: ““You have made history”.
This is how a Coptic Metropolitan described the reconciliation brought about by His Holiness Aram I (Catholicos of the Holy See of Cilicia of the Armenian Apostolic Church) between the Coptic Orthodox and the Ethiopian Orthodox Churches. “This is a historical day”, said an Ethiopian Archbishop.”