Ethiopia Sidamo

The Spiritan Group of Ethiopia gathers at Arba Minch for its Enlarged Assembly 2026 — a week of prayer, reflection, reporting, and discernment. From Sunday 21 June to Saturday 27…

Missão Espiritana na República Centro Africana   EtiópiaNesta edição também o trabalho dos espiritanos com o povo nómada Hamar, do Vale do Omo, no sudoeste da Etiópia.

The two Spiritan groups celebrate their Silver Jubilee together in Addis Ababa.

Dida, the first Ethiopian Borana candidate, flies to Arusha to begin his training.

A young man, Diida Wario, expresses the wish to become a Spiritan; he is the first Boran to show this kind of interest. He will start his studies in Njiro,…

Pope John Paul II, who has already received the patriarch of Ethiopia, Abuna Tekle-Haymanot, (17 October 1981), welcomes in Rome H.H. Abuna Paulos, the present patriarch, and confirms that their…

Two students of the East African Province come for a year of Spiritan and Pastoral experience. It is repeated for the next three years. Out of the first two to…

At the Enlarged General Council in Arusha, Tanzania, a special appeal is made by the Borana group for personnel. The Nigerian Province agrees to send one of their men, Peter…

On the formal invitation of the Ethiopian Orthodox Archbishop, Abuna Zacharias, Fr. Brian O'Toole C.S.Sp. (Catholic) and Marigeta Tewedaj (Orthodox) begin the mission of first evangelisation among the Hamer people…

Because of difficulties raised in Rome by the Ethiopian Catholic Bishops concerning inculturation and collaboration with the Orthodox Church, the Superior General, Frans Timmermans, visits the country for the first…

The first twelve Boranas are baptised in Dadim.

The Spiritan team presents itself to the people (elders) to start their work as evangelisers around Dadim. The elders agree that those who want to be baptised in the Catholic…