Amen!!!

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Amen to your golden conclusion, Amaha. [Pls listen his report at VOA until 'others' post it fully] Your expectation is ours too. We expect it [the Holy Synod] to give solutions to the plenty of problems in the house. But in the aged old tradition [of the house] where voices matters than principles, we are not sure that voices are sufficiently aired to let the fathers feel their responsibility, understand what we are expecting from them in october.

My surprisings regarding yesterday's press conference:

1. Timing: in two ways - we know that public relation is one of the dead activities of the church, a big institution which runs the biggest part of the nation. The laity has long been deprived of its right to hear about the activities of the church. But when the house gets confused and frightened by the scilence of the laity, here it came now to tell us this and that - even budget of the coming fisical year. Where did it sleep for such long? The second funny thing about the timing is the date chosen for the press conference. It is Nehase 1, the beginning of the highly adored fasting season for Ethiopians.

2. Budgeting: history is recorded yesterday, wow. As far as we know, for the first time in the history of the church when the patriarchate announce its annual budget. We will wittness another remarkable history when a professionally done audit report is openly pronounced. BUT from where the house got the mentioned figure (104 mill. Eth. Birr)? The presumption is that it is a clearly cooked figure by the Ninjas. Who did approve the figure? We know that the Holy Synod didn't discuss on budgets in May as always. For which activities is the mentioned budget planned? From which account will it be payed? So, come n' friends, we are taken as puppies.

3. The Committee: we know it is castrated by the house. Of course the said four members contributed for their castration. They left their office for the Ninjas. The Ninjas are successful in that regard. And we heard from the Patriarch that 'it is their responsibility to say this and that about the wrong doings in the house' while he at the same time confirmed that some of them have quitted their jobs. The Patriarch was generous in offering them offices and materials.

What members of the Holy Synod should learn from yesterday's press conference?

1. cooking figure is usual in the house.

2. it is only the Ninjas who discuss and approve budgets.

3. the laity want to hear a deeply discussed and authorized plan by the Holy Synod, not the one by the Ninjas.

4. the laity want to hear a professionally done annual audit report.

5. the laity expect you in October to come with strong decisions and solution making strategies about the overall church's problem.

What the laity should learn fróm the conference?

1. the house is confused

2. loud our voices that the house will be okayed for change

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