EOTC elects 6th Patriarch

Ethiopian News Agency (ENA)

Archbishop of Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo Church (EOTC) Monastery  in Jerusalem, Abune Mathias, is elected as the 6th Patriarch of the Church.

According to the Patriarchal Electoral Committee of the Church,  500 of  the 806 participants of the election have cast votes for Abune Mathias in the elections held on Thursday.

The other four candidates namely Abune Yoseph, Abune Mathewos, Abune Hiskiel and Abune Elsa have got 98, 98, 70 and 39 votes respectively.

Vote counting was held in the presence of observers same day.

Archbishops, department heads of the patriarchate office, ancient monasteries and churches, clergy, followers of the EOTC and Sunday school students, among others, participated in the election of the new Patriarch.

Born in Sebu'i Woreda of the former Agame Awraja in Tigray State,  in 1934E.C., Abune Mathias was Archbishop of the Church's  Monastery  in Jerusalem.

The enthronement of the 6th Patriarch would be held on March 3, 2013 at the Holy Trinity Cathedral.

 Lucy to finish tour

The 3.2 million years Ethiopian Fossil Lucy will return home in april 2013, the ministry of culture and tourism said.
 

Lucy and other heritages began the tour in the US as per the agreement sighed tin 2000 EC by the Ministry and Houston Museum of Natural Science.
 

Lucy's last exhibition will be organized in California from February to April 2013
 

A delegation led by Culture and Tourism Minster Abdulkadir has left here fore the US to take part in the exhibition
 

Lucy was discovered in 1974 as Hadar in teh Awash Valley of the Afar Depression

source The Ethiopian Herald

Comments from Admin of Addis Abol

Palaeontologists say that such invaluable heritage should not move from place to place, at least for two reasons.   one is that despite dozens of insurance is made to guarantee its safety, money could not substitute it. Imagine a plane crush along the way or some religious extremists destroy it  (as they say human is God's creature and this is misleading people) it is a huge crisis for us. The second one is that, it presence at home will have a magnetic effects for tourism. Tourists arrival would pay a lot as the visit, accommodation and the likes can charge them. Not only that they can also visit other sites. In addition, it is good for the image of the nation.