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[German Version] (Feb 2, 1884, Benton, PA – Nov 6, 1970, Syracuse, NY) was an American Congregational missionary (Congregationalism) to the Philippines between 1915 and 1931. Educated at Princeton University, Union Theological Seminary, and Columbia University, Laubach began his missionary career on Mindanao, Philippines, pioneering the literacy method that now bears his name. The method associates sounds with phonetic symbols by means of simple illustrated charts, utilizing primers to encourage r…

[German Version] (OMSC), New Haven, CT. The OMSC traces its roots to 1922, when Marguerite and Ida Doane founded the Houses of Fellowship to provide furnished apartments in Ventnor, New Jersey, for furloughing missionaries. In 1967 the name was changed to Overseas Ministries Study Center, and a modest seminar program was begun in 1973. Its director Gerald H. Anderson (1976–2000) revived the old Occasional Bulletin from the Missionary Research Library(1950), renaming it the International Bulletin of Missionary Research in 1981. In 1987 OMSC relocated to New Haven, CT, in …

Ethiopia’s population comprises some 80 distinct ethnolinguistic groups. Most numerous are the Oromo (40 percent), Amhara and Tigrean (32 percent), Sidamo (9 percent), Shankella (6 percent), Somali (6 percent), Afar (4 percent), and Gurage (2 percent). The Hadiya, Kambatta, Nuer, and Anuak are among the smaller groups. The name of the earlier Christian kingdom situated in the northern regions of modern Ethiopia was Abyssinia, inhabited by peoples and languages of South Semitic affinity (Semites). It was here that the ancient kingdom of Axum …

1. History and Constitution The Ethiopian Orthodox Church, largest of the five non-Chalcedonian (Monophysite) Eastern churches (Oriental Orthodox Churches), traces its beginnings to the unexpected arrival of two young Syrian brothers accompanying their uncle, Meropius, on a voyage from Tyre to India in approximately a.d. 330. Putting into an Ethiopian Red Sea port for water, their ship was burned, and personnel on board were massacred in retaliation for the miscreant behavior of the crew of a vessel that had earlier visited the same port…