This was announced on June 17, 2009, during the exclusive video interview to ADNKRONOS, available at the site Ign, internet front of Adnkronos (www.adnkronos.com), by the Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia, Abuna Pauolos, who was yesterday received by Pope Benedict XVI for the first time.
Patriarch will make official world announcement next Friday at 14:00 hours, form Hotel Aldrovandi in Rome, together with the Prince Aklile Berhan Makonnen Haile Selassie, and Duke Amedeo D'Aosta.
Photo: Patriarcah Abuna Pauolos
"The Ark of the Covenant - said Pauolos - is in Ethiopia for many centuries. As a Patriarch I have seen it with my own eyes and only few highly qualified persons could do the same, until now". According to Patriarch, it is kept in one of the churches, but to defend that authentic, one copy of this religious symbol was placed in every single church in Ethiopia.
At Axum will be build Museum in which the Arc will be exposed. It will be funded by the Foundation of the Prince, made hereditary of the throne by Haile Selassie shortly before his death.
Source: Rome, 17 June. (Adnkronos)
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