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Ethiopia birth place of All three of the world’s major Abrahamic religions.
Ethiopia is the site of the first hijra in Islamic history and the oldest Muslim settlement in Africa at Negash. Until the 1980s, a substantial population of Ethiopian Jews resided in Ethiopia. The country is also the spiritual homeland of the Rastafari religious movement.

The apostle St. Matthew is said to have died in Ethiopia.

The Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion, rumored to hold the original Ark of the Covenant Ethiopia is one of the oldest Christian states in the world.

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church, an Oriental Orthodox Church is the largest Christian denomination in Ethiopia and was part of the Coptic Orthodox Church until 1959,

The Kingdom of Aksum was one of the first nations to officially accept Christianity, when St. Frumentius of Tyre, called Fremnatos or Abba Selama (“Father of Peace”) in Ethiopia, converted King Ezana during the 4th century AD.

Many believe that the Gospel had entered Ethiopia even earlier, with the royal official described as being baptised by Philip the Evangelist in chapter eight of the Acts of the Apostles. (Acts 8:26–39)

Orthodox Christianity has a long history in Ethiopia dating back to the 1st century, and is dominant in northern and central Ethiopia.

The name “Ethiopia” (Hebrew Kush) is mentioned in the Bible numerous times (thirty-seven times in the King James version). Abyssinia (Ethiopia) is also mentioned in the Qur’an and Hadith.

The Gihon river, a name for the Nile, is said to flow through the land, & scholars believe that the use of the term referred to the Kingdom of Kush in particular, or Africa outside of Egypt in general.

Islam in Ethiopia dates back to the founding of the religion; in 615, when a group of Muslims were counseled by Muhammad to escape persecution in Mecca and travel to Ethiopia via modern day Eritrea,

Notes From Historian Art Blair

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