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news & events news from January 2002 January 29 130 years on, sacred artefact is back with rightful owners The Scotsman 29 January 2002 THE normally sober surroundings of an Episcopalian church yesterday gave way to a splash of colour by an entourage of Ethiopian priests who arrived in Edinburgh to retrieve a sacred carving. The delegation, wearing bright robes and carrying decorated parasols, accepted the artefact, which was stolen from their country in a bloody battle and taken to the UK more than 130 years ago. January 28 The St John's Tabot The Rev John McLuckie - St John's Edinburgh Jan 2002 Tewodros and the Destruction of Maqdala Emperor Tewodros II was, by any account, as remarkable and significant a leader for modern Ethiopia as he was a complex one. He was a moderniser, a cultural champion, a successful military leader and, in his final act of resistance at Maqdala, seen as a courageous patriot. His modernising vision encompassed the abolition of slave trade, the building of a road network, literary renaissance, land reform, and a thoroughgoing series of military reforms. Sacred carving found in church cupboard returned to Ethiopia Daily Telegraph 28 January 2002 A SACRED African artefact found in the back of a church cupboard in Scotland, 130 years after it was seized by British soldiers, started its journey back to Ethiopia yesterday. The Tabot, a wooden carving considered the most potent symbol of the country's orthodox church, was handed to an Ethiopian archbishop in Edinburgh. January 27 Ethiopian artefact returning home BBC 27 January 2002 A delegation of religious leaders from Ethiopia has travelled to Edinburgh to collect a sacred carving which was unearthed in a church cupboard. January 24 AFROMET statement on the return of the Tabot AFROMET 24 January 2002 Statement by Professor Andreas Eshete, Chair of AFROMET, on the occasion of the Return of the Ethiopian Tabot from Edinburgh, Scotland. January 22 Worshippers to return sacred Ethiopian carving Scottish Episcopal Church Press Release 22 January 2002 Edinburgh worshippers are to return a sacred carving to Ethiopia - 130 years after British soldiers seized it in a bloody battle. Members of St John's Episcopal Church, Princes Street, will hand over the holy 'Tabot', to a delegation of Ethiopian priests and dignitaries next weekend. January 21 Ethiopia gets back war booty BBC World Service 21 January 2002 The Scottish episcopal church says an Ethiopian delegation will arrive in Edinburgh next Saturday to receive back a 400-year-old religious relic, looted by British troops more than a century ago. The sacred carving, called a Tabot, represents the Ark of the Covenant and is one of the holiest artefacts of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. January 20 Minister's relic stirs African hearts The Observer 20 January 2002 His mother and grandmother took on the might of the British state and won women the vote. Now Dr Richard Pankhurst is leading Ethiopia's fight to throw off the last vestiges of imperial rule. The son of Sylvia, grandson of Emmeline and nephew of Christabel, the founders of the Suffragette movement, Pankhurst is campaigning for the treasures looted by British soldiers during a battle in 1868 to be returned to the African nation and next weekend his dream will start to be realised in Edinburgh. January 04 The Return of Addis Ababa's Lost Tabot The Addis Tribune 4 January 2002 The discovery in Edinburgh, Scotland, of one of a dozen or so Holy Tabots, or symbolic Ethiopian representations of the Ark of the Covenant, looted by British troops from Emperor Tewodros's capital at Maqdala in 1868, will be followed, within the next few weeks, by its return to Ethiopia. |
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