{"id":291677,"date":"2019-04-14T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=2418bd85e20f378bc76e41f1b87f17de"},"modified":"2026-09-11T11:34:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:34:22","slug":"ethiopia-and-the-ark-of-the-covenant-the-land-that-claims-to-keep-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/291677","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia and the Ark of the Covenant: the land that claims to keep it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German Catholic outlet katholisch.de revisited a story that never leaves Ethiopian religious imagination: the claim that the <strong>Ark of the Covenant<\/strong> rests in Axum, guarded by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-353782\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Axum.jpg?fit=768%2C432&ssl=1\" alt=\"Ethiopia and the Ark of the Covenant: the land that claims to keep it\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whether one treats the claim as faith, national myth, or contested archaeology, it shapes pilgrimage, identity, and how Ethiopia narrates continuity from antiquity through Christian kingdom to the present.<\/p>\n<p>Culture-and-faith explainers belong in a Horn reference library. They help readers understand why Axum, Mary of Zion, and biblical symbolism still surface in politics, tourism, and diaspora life.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.katholisch.de\/artikel\/21224-aethiopien-das-land-mit-der-bundeslade\">katholisch.de<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c4thiopien: Das Land mit der Bundeslade&nbsp;&nbsp;katholisch.de<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":353782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Axum.jpg?fit=800%2C450&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1dSt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600556,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291677\/revisions\/600556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}