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Today is a big day in Alamayu-land. CBC's Lauren Sproule on the imminent return of a lock of Alamayu's hair, a tabot (!) and other artefacts. cbc.ca/news/world/pri…

The Scheherazade Foundation celebrating restitution of Ethiopian heritage: a sacred Tabot tablet returned to the Orthodox Church, a horn cup taken from #Magdala, gift of Prince Alemayehu's hair donated by the family of Capain Speedy from New Zealand @EthioEmbassyUK Loot and Plunder

An extraordinary event. The return of a plundered Ethiopian Tabot, three plundered cups and ... a lock of Prince Alamayu's hair (with a lock of Captain Speedy's hair) Organised by the The Scheherazade Foundation at The Athenaeum. Read on for details of the celebration service on Sunday

Wonderful to be at this event last night, but I'm sad not to be able to join the congregation on Sunday when the Tabot is welcomed. Looking forward to many more events like this!

BBC News - Ethiopian Prince Alemayehu's lock of hair returned after 140 years in UK bbc.co.uk/news/world-afr…

1/2 This is what repatriation looks like. A sacred Tabot stolen by British troops from Ethiopia in 1868, returned this week, reconsecrated and celebrated in St. Mary's Ethiopian Orthodox church London today. Thanks to alula pankhurst for the footage.

A sacred tablet seized by British troops in 1868 in Ethiopia was finally returned yesterday in a moving service at a London church—increasing pressure on the British Museum, which holds 11 of these artefacts theartnewspaper.com/2023/09/25/sac…

And so, we are begun… #Synod. I will share just this one moment from tonight - a single male voice singing St Francis’ Laudato si’ whilst a man from Aleppo & woman from Columbia laid flowers and a life jacket in front of a specially made San Damiano cross replica.

To Old Saint Paul’s Church, where, hidden in a chapel, sits this extraordinary painting by Alison Watt.

The Revd Canon Dr Anderson Jeremiah has been announced as the Diocese of London’s next Bishop of Edmonton. london.anglican.org/articles/new-b…

NEWS: The Westminster Abbey tabot has moved another step closer to Ethiopia. Last week, the abbey was "in discussions" to return it. Now the abbey has "decided in principle" to return it.👇How far we've come since John McLuckie first raised this in 2010! theartnewspaper.com/2024/02/13/wes…

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"The Rev Gebre Georgis Dimtsu's discovery of these artifacts in a storeroom, praying over them, highlighted the spiritual void experienced by the Ethiopian Orthodox community in their absence." Returning Looted Ethiopian Tabot Sparks Restitution Debate bnnbreaking.com/history/westmi…

Restitution exemplars: The first returned Holy Tabot looted by British Forces from #Magdala in 1868 was discovered by John McLuckie in St John's Church in Edinburgh. It was returned to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and repatriated amid great jubilation bit.ly/4a6oTBo

🧵1/4 In which Lewis McNaught, Editor, Returningheritage.com pushes the restitution debate/campaign into new legal territory. With a challenge to find out why the British Museum is being so secretive about the reasons behind its reluctance to return stolen sacred tabots to Ethiopia returningheritage.com/british-museum…

British Museum investigated over #Ethiopian artefacts hidden for 150 years: buff.ly/43GdGps (via BBC News (UK)) Make sure you check out our book 'The Prince and the Plunder,' which follows the story of an Ethiopian prince stolen from his homeland: buff.ly/4cHx6hS

Lemn Sissay on BBC Radio 4 Today today. "Forming new relationships with the world and ourselves is what is happening in museums, and particularly the British Museum. They should give the sacred tabots back" to Ethiopia. Well said, and thanks for the namecheck! bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Who Guards the Guardians? publicorthodoxy.org/2024/04/24/who… via Public Orthodoxy

Huge news. It's back. The shield taken from Ethiopia in 1868, put up for sale in Newcastle this year, identified through the expertise of alula pankhurst (who shared the pics) and handed over through the negotiation of HIH Prince Ermias & the Royal Ethiopian Trust just came back home.