Egyptian, Ethiopian churches resume relations

MENA news agency
14 Jul 07

Cairo, 14 July: The Christian Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt and the
Ethiopian Orthodox Church have reconciled and resumed relations.

A joint declaration was signed Saturday [14 July] by Pope Shenouda
[Shinudah] III of Alexandria and head of Saint Mark Diocese and
Patriarch Paulos of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.

The reconciliation was declared under the auspices of Lebanon’s
Armenian Orthodox Patriarch, Aram I, who mediated between the two
churches.

Relations between the two churches have been frozen since 1994. They
have been affected by some incidents, including their dispute over
Jerusalem’s Al-Sultan Monastery.