{"id":13226,"date":"2021-09-17T18:25:51","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T18:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/?p=13226"},"modified":"2021-09-17T18:29:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T18:29:53","slug":"ethiopia-we-ought-to-be-instruments-of-peace-promoting-dialogue-and-reconciliation-cardinal-berhanayesus-new-year-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/2021\/09\/17\/ethiopia-we-ought-to-be-instruments-of-peace-promoting-dialogue-and-reconciliation-cardinal-berhanayesus-new-year-message\/","title":{"rendered":"ETHIOPIA: \u201cWe Ought to be Instruments of Peace, Promoting Dialogue and Reconciliation,\u201d Cardinal Berhanayesus\u2019 New Year Message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Sr. Jecinter Antoinette Okoth, FSSA<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the eve of Ethiopia\u2019s New Year on Friday, September 10, the President of the Catholic Bishop\u2019s Conference of Ethiopia (CBCE) called on the faithful to embrace peace, encourage dialogue and be channels for reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAs we all know, peace is a fruit to love. God loves peace but hates enmity.\u00a0 Those who love God look a lot like God, we therefore need to be an instrument for peace, promote dialogues and reconciliations\u201d CBCE\u2019s President His Eminence Berhanayesus Demerew Cardinal Souraphiel said in a statement shared with <em>AMECEA online<\/em> adding that, \u201cWe all need to take part in the change processes of the darkness into a light and we need to know that all are called to respect the gift of life and value brotherhood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cardinal Souraphiel appeals for peace following the conflict\u00a0between regional State led by the political party of Tigray People\u2019s Liberation Front (TPLF), that has led to destruction of property in the country, with several households displaced while many Ethiopian refugees have crossed borders to seek for refuge due to humanitarian and security crisis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In his message, the Archbishop of Addis Ababa, acknowledged that the country has been experiencing wars at various times and members of CBCE \u201cfeel the pains and injuries of the people and their families,\u201d and frequently encourages all parties for dialogues and peace as they insist on the option of reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe Church keeps on praying so that the entire nation can be an instrument for peace,\u201d the message read in parts and His Eminence continues, \u201cWe appreciate all who work for peace and reconciliation in the country or abroad. We also pray for those who stimulate animosities so that the almighty God gives them a new heart, a loving one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the Ethiopia Calendar it is the year of St. Mark, 2014 and the Cardinal asks all the faithful to strengthen their faith and clearly see the will of God in problematic times saying, \u201cLet us all walk in light so that we could build a loving world for the coming generation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He further asked for continued prayers and support to the internally displaced people which can be offered either in kind or in cash as the country celebrates the New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sr. Jecinter Antoinette Okoth, FSSA On the eve of Ethiopia\u2019s New Year on Friday, September&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amecea-news","category-ethiopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13228,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13226\/revisions\/13228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}