the great fast
on An Adventure in Addis (Ethiopia), 24/Feb/2010 10:05, 34 days ago
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Orthodox Ethiopians began fasting for Easter over two weeks ago; not eating meat, fish, milk, eggs or cake. The siga bets (meat shops) are closed or selling furniture.
They spend 250 days of their year fasting, each Wednesday and Friday plus the special fasting periods before Christmas and Easter, and any additional reason that they can [...]
