The historic Ethiopian Monastery in Jerusalem has grabbed attention wide and far following an outbreak of conflict between the Ethiopian defenders of the Monastery known as Deir el-Sultan and their Egyptian rivals. Egypt, through its newspaperAl-Ahram and her president, Mubarak, are seen lobbying in defense of the interest of their monks and nuns to take over the Ethiopian monastery. Other non-Ethiopians with a history of the monastery are also rallying to defend the Ethiopian faithful in Jerusalem. The following links show how the issue has become a hotspot in some circles. Ethiomedia thanks our contributor Mekonen for bringing the topic to our attention. We hope Ethiopian scholars on the subject will have a word or two on the historic Ethiopian Monastery that is being cornered in Jerusalem.

• A great must-read article on the Ethiopian Church in Jerusalem
• Website of Imahoy Abreham (Sister Abraham), who is a white Danish woman who became an Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Menoksit and lives in Jerusalem. She has written many interesting publications on the EOTC in the Holy Land!! (Website is in Danish but you can contact her: she speaks Danish, Hebrew, German, English and Amharic (I suppose she even speaks more languages)
• A website with some wonderful pictures (the pictures of the Ethiopians are at the bottom of the page)Africa in Jerusalem
• A Website on the Ethiopian Church in israel on an Israeli Government website.
• An Egyptian view, here you can see how they try to falsify history, there are many counterarguments to what the writer says in al-Ahram Egyptian English newspaper
• Pope Shenouda III wants to form an Arab lobby against our Deir Sultan
• Egyptian President Mubarak refuses to talk to Netanyahu: one condition: return the Deir al-Sultan to Egyptians!

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