🥚 Easter, known as
Fasika in Ethiopia, is the most widely celebrated religious holiday
among Ethiopian Christians—especially followers of the Ethiopian
Orthodox Tewahedo Church. It marks the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
and unlike Western celebrations, Fasika in Ethiopia is deeply
spiritual and filled with rituals that reflect centuries-old
traditions.
Ethiopian Orthodox
Christians celebrate Easter anywhere from a week to two weeks after
the western Church (sometimes, they occur at the same time, due to
the vagaries of the Eastern Orthodox calendar, which Ethiopians
follows). Fasika (Easter) follows eight weeks of fasting from meat
and dairy. On Easter Eve, Ethiopian Christians participate in an
hours-long church service that ends around 3 a.m., after which they
break their fast and celebrate the risen Christ.
The Long Fast Before
Fasika
Leading up to Easter,
Ethiopian Christians observe a two-month-long fasting period called
Hudade, during which they refrain from eating meat, dairy, and eggs.
Most believers fast daily until 3:00 PM, though some may fast until
12:00 PM, except on Saturdays and Sundays. Religious leaders often
fast until 6:00 PM. This period mirrors the biblical sacrifice and
suffering of Jesus Christ.
Easter
Sunday – Joyful Resurrection and Celebration
At midnight or early Sunday morning (around 2–3 AM), church
services are held to celebrate Christ’s resurrection. Families
return home to break the fast with a traditional feast featuring Doro
Wot served with injera. The day is filled with joy as families and
friends gather to eat, drink traditional beverages like tella and
tej, and share laughter. It is the most important Christian
celebration in Ethiopia.
👹 Satan
Hates ♰
Christians: This is The Primary Driver For
The Ongoing Christian Genocide in Ethiopia
Chapter: Expulsion of Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula
(21)
“It has been narrated by 'Umar b. al-Khattib that he heard the
Messenger of Allah (ﷺ)
say: I will expel the Jews and Christians from the Arabian Peninsula
and will not leave any but Muslim.”
The origin of houses
discovered in the 1990s on an island near Abu Dhabi remained a
mystery, until a recent discovery.
Archaeologists
uncovered a plaster cross from 1,400 years ago in a courtyard.
Experts said the cross’
location prove the cluster of houses were once connected to the
local monastery.
Christian
populations were more common in what is now the United Arab Emirates
around the sixth century A.D. Eventually, however, the genocidal
Islamic Jihad started to exterminate Christians
and take hold and dominated the religious environment in the
seventh century.
Archaeologists working at
Abu Dhabi’s Sir Bani Yas Island uncovered the artifact that
features a stepped pyramid representing Golgotha, where Christians
believe Jesus was crucified, and leaves sprouting from its base.
It was found among the ruins
of a church and monastery, suggesting a Christian community
flourished on the island during the seventh and eighth centuries.
Christianity during this
period was typically associated with the Levant, Mesopotamia and
parts of Europe, making the discovery of a thriving community on a
southeastern Arabian Gulf island both unexpected and historically
significant.
At the same time, the region
was undergoing profound religious change as Islam was rising and
spreading rapidly across Arabia, while older pagan traditions
lingered and Christianity was thought to be fading.
However, the presence of a
flourishing Christian settlement here challenges that assumption.
Maria Gajewska, lead
archaeologist at the site, said: 'Every element of the cross
incorporates regional motifs.
'It tells us that
Christianity in this region was not only present but flourished,
adapting visually to its local context. We had settlements of
Christians that were not just existing but were clearly thriving.'
The 1,400-year-old cross was
unearthed in Abu Dhabi, suggesting Christianity spread much farther
than previously believed
The 1,400-year-old cross was
unearthed in Abu Dhabi, suggesting Christianity spread much farther
than previously believed
The cross is about 10.6
inches long, 6.7 inches wide, and roughly 0.8 inches thick.
Archaeologists believe it
could have been an object of veneration and placed on a wall with
worshippers kneeling before it.
Evidence of a church and
monastery on Sir Bani Yas, dating to the seventh and eighth
centuries, was first uncovered in the early 1990s.
Another monastery, likely
linked to the same church, was discovered on an island in Umm Al
Quwain in 2022. Similar sites have also been identified in Kuwait,
Iran, and Saudi Arabia.
Archaeologists are still
investigating why the Sir Bani Yas settlement declined.
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Crucifixion | On That Day,
Children of Christ Became Christians &
Children of the Antichrist Muslims
"When
you see this baby hit 88 miles an hour, you're gonna see some serious
sh*t"
Car hits
88mph, vanishes in flames between marty & doc browns legs, doc
wearing a white suit with nuclear symbol on the back.
"What
did I tell you! 88 miles per hour"
The number
plate from the car spins on the floor revealing the words 'outatime'
X (Baby
Elon= BABYLON) recently suspended my 14-year-old Twitter
account. Blessing in Disguise?
• Elon and
X
Elon
rebranded twitter to 'X'
Elon also
has 'Space X dragon'
🐉 The
dragon
In
Revelation, we are warned about satan, that
old serpent the dragon:
❖[Revelation
12:9]❖
“And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the
Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out
into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.”
Friday's events
are recorded in Matthew 27:1-62, Mark 15:1-47, Luke 22:63, Luke
23:56, and John 18:28, John 19:37.
In the early
morning hours, as Jesus' trial was getting underway, Peter denied
knowing his Master three times before the rooster crowed.
Good Friday is
the most difficult day of Passion Week. Christ's journey turned
treacherous and acutely painful in these final hours leading to his
death.
According to
Scripture, Judas Iscariot, the disciple who had betrayed Jesus, was
overcome with remorse and hanged himself early Friday morning.
Meanwhile,
before the third hour (9 a.m.), Jesus endured the shame of false
accusations, condemnation, mockery, beatings, and abandonment. After
multiple unlawful trials, He was sentenced to death by crucifixion,
one of the most horrible and disgraceful methods of capital
punishment known at the time.
Before Christ
was led away, soldiers spit on him, tormented and mocked him, and
pierced him with a crown of thorns. Then Jesus carried His cross part
of the way to Calvary and then a man named Simon was compelled to
carry it the rest of the way. At Calvary, Jesus was again mocked and
insulted as Roman soldiers nailed Him to the wooden cross.
Jesus spoke
seven powerful statements from the cross, including "Father,
forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing" (Luke
23:34, NIV), "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit"
(Luke 23:46, NIV), and His last words were, “It is finished”
(John 19:30).
Then, about the
ninth hour (3 p.m.), Jesus breathed his last breath and died.
By 6 p.m.
Friday evening, Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea took Jesus' body
down from the cross and lay it in a tomb.
❖ Psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson on
the Crucifixion of Christ
♱ Tonight
and tomorrow we Ethiopian Orthodox Christians celebrate The
Feast Day which marks the discovery of The True Cross of Jesus
Christ.
The
discovery of this revered relic within Christianity can be traced
back to the fourth (4th) century when the mother of the Roman Emperor
Constantine, Queen Helena received divine guidance to its location.
According
to legend, Queen Helena, now canonized, had a dream. In the dream,
she was told to make a bonfire from which the smoke would show her
the location where the True Cross of Jesus was buried.
After
doing as she was instructed and the bonfire lit, the smoke rose high
up to the sky and returned to the ground, exactly where the Cross had
been buried. Thus began the yearly celebration of the discovery.
According to the Ethiopian
Orthodox Church, the discovery of the True Cross is traditionally
believed to have been in March, but Meskel was moved to September to
avoid holding a festival during Lent, and because the church
commemorating the True Cross in Jerusalem was dedicated during
September.
❖❖❖[Galatians 6:14]❖❖❖
“But
far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus
Christ, by which[a] the world has been crucified to me, and I to the
world.”
Anyone may have done this,
especially in the present anti-Christian environment and rising
violence. One possibility is that it is the work of people who
believe that the Cross is an insult to the power of Allah, and that ”
they did not kill him nor crucify him, but it seemed so to them”
(Qur’an 4:157).
The perpetrators would do
well to arm themselves… A three-century-old Pyrenean symbol
destroyed with a sledgehammer,” translated from “‘Leurs auteurs
auront intérêt à s’armer’
The Cross
on the Col de la Crouzette, an ancient monument between the Bethmale
and Eychelles valleys, was destroyed again over the weekend of August
15, 2025. It was smashed on site, presumably with a sledgehammer. An
incomprehensible act that has outraged shepherds and hikers. Beyond
its topographical function, the Cross had a strong symbolic meaning
and was a witness to a heritage passed down from generation to
generation.
For twenty-five years, the
Cross on the Col de la Crouzette, also known as Portet d’Eychelles,
has been the target of several acts of vandalism. This stone Cross,
erected at the Crossroads of the Eychelles valley and the summer
pastures of Haute Serre in the commune of Bethmale, long marked the
transition between the valleys of Bethmale, Soueix,
In 2001, the original Cross
was stolen. Two years later, a new Cross, carved from stone quarried
below the Col de la Core on the Seix side, was erected in the same
place.
The work is by Thierry
Galey, a resident of Samortein-en-Bethmale and a draughtsman in the
aeronautical industry in Toulouse. In 2004, this new Cross was
blessed by Abbé Jean Fauroux, who was already known for blessing the
Cross on Mont Valier. At the time, the mayor of Bethmale was
confident: “The perpetrators had better arm themselves with chisels
and hammers to tear it down.„
It appears from the report
that the original cross was stolen and replacement carved out of the
bedrock was arrested in 2001.
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Christian Migrants, FRANCE
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