- Title: Ethiopians celebrate "Timket" festival that marks Jesus' baptism
- Date: 20th January 2024
- Summary: ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA (JANUARY 19, 2024) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF CROWD AT TIMKET FESTIVAL VARIOUS OF CHOIR SINGING HANDS OF CHOIR MEMBERS CLAPPING MEN BLOWING HORNS MAN BLOWING HORN DRUMMERS VARIOUS OF PRIESTS CARRYING REPLICAS OF THE ARCH OF THE COVENANT VARIOUS OF WOMEN ULULATING PRIESTS CARRYING CROSSES (SOUNDBITE) (Amharic) ETHIOPIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH MEMBER, TSIGEREDA GIRMA, SAYING: “There is a lot of blood spilling. It is violence everywhere. Nothing makes you happy. You can’t point fingers to a single source for this. This is a result of our sins. If we cry out to God he will make us go back to our consciousness and things will be rectified, and he will return us to our previous identity. That is what I can say. Our situation is depressing. We are going through a rough time that is difficult to express.”
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- Location: ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA
- City: ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA
- Country: Ethiopia
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Thousands of Ethiopian Orthodox followers gathered in the capital Addis Ababa on Friday (January 19) and Saturday (January 20) to celebrate Epiphany, also called Timket, a religious festival commemorating Jesus' baptism in the Jordan River.
Followers marched from churches to Jan Meda, an open field in the capital, while priests carried tents called tabots, replicas of the Ark of the Covenant that are sacred in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, one of the world's oldest churches.
A two-year conflict in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region that ended in November 2022 drove people from their homes, destroyed harvests, leaving widespread hunger in the area.
Although the religious festival was celebrated across the country, in some areas it was disrupted by conflict in the Amhara region. Gondar, Amhara region's second-biggest city, usually attracts many people during the Timket festival, but a few days prior to the festival clashes broke out between government forces and Fano, a local militia.
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