On the occasion of the Ethiopian Millennium, September 2007 - Meskerem 2000, an "Amen Ethiopia Project" was launched with the goal of organising an overland Journey of Hope from North America - Europe via the Middle East to Ethiopia. Ethiopians resident in the Diaspora, representing different ethnic and religious groups and a few participants from the homeland, who in the course of the journey symbolically recreated the solidarity and renewal essential for national reconstruction and development. The journey constituted a period of inner growth and transformation for the participants, which mirrored the process which we hope Ethiopia will go through in the third Millennium.

The Objective and Vision of Amen Ethiopia

The project’s main aim is to promote the solidarity and renewal essential for national reconstruction and development. The turn of the millennium presents a window of opportunity to work for a paradigm shift in mentalities, leaving behind the instability and polarization that have prevailed in Ethiopia in the last decades. The project intends to promote a gradual change of attitudes focusing on solidarity and unity in diversity.

The journey is part of a wider program aimed at raising awareness through a series of symposiums, spiritual activities and publicity raising events, intended to mobilize the Ethiopian Diaspora and link them with events in the motherland. The Ethiopian new Millennium is an appropriate time to open a new chapter in national life. After the completion of the journey diverse ongoing initiatives are being launched to ensure the continuation of the vision in different ways, particularly the opening up of new areas of intercommunity dialogue.

Speech by Mgr. M.P.M. Muskens, Bishop of Breda, The Netherlands.

Speech by representative CMC Mr.Paul van Eck

Video footage of the event: 1, 2 & 3.

1. Click for large video display.	2. Click for large video display.	3. Click for large video display.
Videos taken during the	Journey of Peace
Amen Ethiopia-Belgium. Click for large video display.	Dr.Melaku Kifle - EOTC rep. to WCC. Click for large video display.	Amen Ethiopia-in WCC. Click for large video display.

Interviews

The Objective and Vision of Amen Ethiopia