WHY ORTHODOX FOR THE UNIFICATION OF AFRICA?

When this group was created, it was being thought to achieve the following two aims. These were:

1. To help the African people know the true way of Salivation that they never have been offered before. When you look into the rest of the world, it has been mad not to follow the true way of Salivation and intentionally left it behind and get into an other way of life which they termed Transformation in the fifteenth century (which bore the world of Protestantism) and so similar phenomena has happened in case of the fifth century (which bore the world of Catholics) i.e. (451 AD). But Africans have been forced or at least they have not been offered the true way of Salivation i.e. the religion of the Apostles that God Himself has handed over to them. We have also accepted the religion of our forefathers through unbroken flow of true religious exercises and tradition which is simply the true reflection of the Bible. So this pure truth should be at least offered to African people to whom no one else has offered before.
2. African people are getting very huge loses of its natural and man made resources due to the mischievous actions the western world and other developed countries. The boundary lines built up by the will of the colonial powers has left Africa in conflict with each other for centuries and this irritating condition may perpetuate for the coming centuries as well as we are looking it now. Not only the boundary lines but also other Economic, Political, Socio-Cultural and Psychological make ups that have been constructed by the European colonial powers has left its scar on the present deteriorated condition of Africa. I have pinpointed the only few past actions that made Africa the victims of the Western World. But not only the past action, at present days also, these developed world powers are acting as "mediators" over the African Issues and they are playing their negative roles on the developments of the good relations between Africans. They are influencing Africans not to have their own trade links and other strong relations to force Africa to be the indirect colonial empire of the developed world. If Africans could have unity, they would have got good opportunities to have an influencing power over the world about their own internal issue. They could get supplements of each other for the solution of a problem one region of Africa might be found at the other corner of the continent for example in natural resources and industrial and agricultural products. This in turn would produce an other ideal market for the products and resources of the continent. For unity to be effected the people at all should have one common identity and they should have one common ancient heritage. This ancient heritage should not be symbolic to inscribe the strongest sense of unity among the people. No other value or ancient heritage of Africa can bring life changing orders (life patterns) and heart felt senses inscription of unity better than religion. Religion is life at all. So it is preferred religion to any other Ancient Heritage for African people to have in common. Now let us come to the point how Orthodox should be the common Ancient Heritage of the African people. The following are some of the listed reasons that I have told to myself while I thought the concept of Unifying Africa:

A. Orthodox Religion was the most ancient religion of those religions having huge impact on the people of the world. It is simply practiced by the ancient Egyptians till today, Ethiopians till today, Libyans till they are affected by the Muslim world, and other North African Countries. This condition presents Orthodox Christianity the most ancient of all religions which have brought huge impacts on the lives of the population of the world.
B. Orthodox Christianity is established by the will of the African people without any power influences of the foreigners. When we look the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church establishment, it traces back to the ancient times more than 4000 years ago. Ethiopians were being knowing God as early as the man kind History and they were exercising worship of God before the Birth of Jesus Christ for about 2000 years. 1000 years without written commandments of God and 1000 years with given written laws of God. They have had the books of the Old Testament and they were waiting for the coming of Christ to Earth according their knowledge they have got from the Books of the Prophets and their Predictions. When Jesus Christ was born in the Middle East, they have gone to Him and brought Him Tributes and bowed to Him as stated in Isaiah:” And they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring forth gold and incense; and they shall show forth the praises of the Lord." They have accepted Him the True God and the true Son the Father. After 34 years later, a eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians has gone to Jerusalem to worship and brought the news of Gospel to his fellow citizens. This was not the only beginning to worship God, but it was actually the beginning to the Era of Christianity in Ethiopia. But the greatest expansion of Gospel in Ethiopia could have been effected the fourth century. The people have accepted Christianity happily with their full will. When we come to Egypt, Saint Mark has left the base of the Gospel in Egypt and this flowing truth could have cross centuries and it has reached at our ages without being distorted and with living tradition of the first century of the Apostles. So only Orthodox Christianity is established by the full will of the African people and largely by their own actions to expand Gospel in the lands of Africa. But other religions are introduced to Africa forcefully by war having an other mission behind.

C. In the doctrines and canons of Orthodox Christianity true values of unity and sacrifice are preached under the Commandment of Love. The commandment of Love orders one to pay great scarifies up to and including giving up ones life for the sake of the other. The is the value to effect the true unity and heart felt Love to one another. It includes all the ethical values including the hard working traditions and avoidance of wickedness. These values coming following the commandment of Love are the true values that can bring these huge numbers of tribes under the common way of Unity and Shared common senses. In none of other religions these values are preached or at least practiced. But under Orthodox Christianity we have so many figures of Love and true mirror reflections of Gospel.

So now we are expected first to aim at valuing the African people by telling and helping them to know these pure facts. After this step, we can move forward to bring the whole Africa to get unified. The first is more difficult and also has to proceed first. So we will work visualizing the second one as well. So contents of the Spiritual and Religious Matters are to be posted for the group.

The issue of communication media language, we can use English. But since the present members of the group are Ethiopians and Amharic speakers, we can use also Amharic as a media language. Later when there are a number of other African Countries as members, we can use the language of the largest members additionally.

Other matters how we are going to proceed and related issues need to be defined by the group members using some discussion topics. We should strongly motivate group members to add values from their minds. The cumulative outputs outshine the individual outputs.

We have to strongly motivate other Africans to be members and active participants in our group. We should have diversified members to get the recent information and distributed effects.

These are some of the introduction that I thought for the time being. When I have some other things, I will notify you on time. You yourself can also broaden the starting idea into more meaningful proposals. But it does not urge you instantly. You can take long time and come up with more beautiful ideas. Our starting may be put into practice at the time the next generation, but we have to at least put the framework for having that.

God Bless African People!!!!