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Ethiopia’s Urban-Renewal Project Raises Expectations for Rural Christians

Ethiopia’s Urban-Renewal Project Raises Expectations for Rural Christians

Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Pastor at his local congregation. Evangelist to his neighborhood. Community board member. But first, Abebe Woldegiorgis was a witch doctor. Woldegiorgis hails from the rural outskirts of Bishoftu, a city one hour southeast of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital, and grew up in his country’s historic Christian denomination, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. Though many residentsfollowed Read more... The post Ethiopia’s Urban-Renewal Project Raises Expectations for Rural Christians appeared first on Christianity Today.