By Barbie Latza Nadeau, The Daily Beast ROME — It has been more than 30 years since that old rocker Bob Geldof launched the charity initiative Band Aid for famine in Ethiopia with the poignant tune, “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” Since then, it would seem from afar, Ethiopia has hovered on the edge of
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BY KYLE BALLUCK An Obama administration official late Sunday condemned the mass murder of Ethiopian Christians in Libya, purportedly by terrorists affiliated with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). “We express our condolences to the families of the victims and our support to the Ethiopian government and people as they grieve for their
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Because they’re using a different calendar. Why do the Orthodox branches celebrate the Christmas holiday on a different day from Western Christians? Because they’re still using the Julian calendar. Like the Eastern Orthodox Church in Russia, the Copts still use the Julian calendar adopted by Julius Caesar in 45 B.C. The Julian calendar has 365
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Because they’re using a different calendar. Why do the Orthodox branches celebrate the Christmas holiday on a different day from Western Christians? Because they’re still using the Julian calendar. Like the Eastern Orthodox Church in Russia, the Copts still use the Julian calendar adopted by Julius Caesar in 45 B.C. The Julian calendar has 365
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