Ethiopia is one of the earliest cradles of Christianity, the second nation after Armenia to adopt Christianity as a state religion. But Catholics have struggled here ever since seismic events in the early 17th century crushed their burgeoning religion in this most religious land.
Eventually Catholics made a small comeback, but nowadays devotees of the Ethiopian Catholic Church – an Eastern Church in communion with the Church of Rome – constitute only one per cent of Ethiopia’s 95 million-plus population.
