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190 - Deacon Henok Elias - Inside the Ethiopian Orthodox Church

The Symbolic World

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Ethiopia's Pivotal Moment

Ethiopia is one of the oldest dynasties in the world. My parents came to America before Haile Celas's regime, which if you go on the conservative estimate was about a 700 year Orthodox Christian monarchy. So I grew up in a milieu of all of these people who were Ethiopian elites drained from the country and then living abroad. And so they also were very strict about me learning the Amharic language,. But for me, I was raised really nominally Christian.

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