Dr.Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has been calling for urgent action to tackle Covid 19 all over the world. He is an Ethiopian biologist, public health researcher, and official who has served since 2017 as Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO). He graduated with a bachelor’s degree from “Catholic College of Santa Famiglia” in Asmara, which was part of Ethiopia. The Catholic Church is one of the major religions of the world. It is a global religion in which the majority of the countries of the world partake in. The Catholic Church prides itself on its long history and prevalent power, with an estimated 158 million Catholics in Africa alone. The Church had a historical significance which is now the presented new social and economic opportunities for Ethiopians. This article aims to describe the impact of the Roman Catholic Church on the local community and the larger community in Ethiopia.
The impacts of the Catholic Church on the local community in Ethiopia have created several diverse contexts worldwide. The Catholic Church is creating a unique contribution to the growth and humanitarian intervention. The Catholic Church has played a role in providing education in general and Christian education to the entire human race throughout the globe (Clarke, 2016). The Code of Canon Law stresses the Church’s obligation and obligation to educate people, and it focuses on incorporating Christian education into the entire model of human existence. Ethiopia’s Catholic Church spends heavily on education. They have spearheaded many schools in Ethiopia in their quest to help citizens access quality education. Catholic Relief Services allows you the chance to make a big difference in the lives of the world’s poor and disadvantaged people. Following the diverse programs undertaken by the Catholic Church of Ethiopia, job opportunities to the locals have increased for decades. As a result, the lives of these individuals have improved dynamically, thanks to the Catholic Church. CRS’s humanitarian efforts in Ethiopia also help farmers and entrepreneurs develop their living standards, advocate gender equality, galvanizes immunization, and reduces the effects of HIV. CRS has been at the forefront of intervening in natural and human-made emergencies impacting Ethiopia’s most vulnerable communities for nearly 60 years. Further than disaster response, CRS’ disaster relief and recovery programs in drought and flood-prone regions have helped individuals and communities restore their properties via non-food assistance in agriculture, livestock, health, education, and water and sanitation. CRS strives to expand access to high-quality services at the client, family, and community levels, as well as with public and private health care and social service providers. In Ethiopia, the Catholic Church has been able to supplement governmental services by offering 3 PPE kits and handwashing infrastructure through existing health centers and healthcare workers embedded in the societies during the outbreak of Covid-19 (Hoddinott, 2019). Established community engagement staff are also familiar with the society’s most vulnerable citizens and can target emergency food and hygiene materials. In Ethiopia, CRS has aided in improving adult literacy, teaching farmers how to raise profitable livestock, and enhancing cooperation between couples to achieve greater gender balance in societies.
Religion is one of the most common subcultures which the society has in the history of mankind and continues to have an overwhelming influence on its followers and non-followers. In their quest to spread Christianity in Africa, the missionaries, apart from contending with tropical diseases such as malaria and the hostilities of some indigenous communities, one of their major problems was how to preach the gospel of Christ to an illiterate population. Christianity required reading of the bible, and as such, the Africans needed to be taught how to read and write. It is no wonder that the earliest efforts to “civilize” the Africans were directed towards the provision of Western education. Today the Catholic Church has continued to support education in Ethiopia. According to Clarke (2016), there are over 252 catholic schools spread across the country. Some of the country’s major Catholic schools include St. Joseph’s Schools, St. May’s School, and Lideta Catholic Cathedral School. Catholic Church has also built universities in Ethiopia to provide tertiary education. Ethiopian Catholic University and Ethiopian Catholic University of St. Aquinas are some of the best-known universities in the country.
In several diverse contexts worldwide, the Catholic Church is creating a unique contribution to the growth and humanitarian intervention. The Catholic Church has played a role in providing education in general and Christian education to the entire human race throughout the globe (Ngetich, 2016). The Code of Canon Law stresses the Church’s obligation and obligation to educate people, and it focuses on incorporating Christian education into the entire model of human existence. Ethiopia’s Catholic Church spends heavily on education. They have spearheaded many schools in Ethiopia in their quest to help citizens access quality education.
In Ethiopia, CRS has aided in improving adult literacy, teaching farmers how to raise profitable livestock, and enhancing cooperation between couples to achieve greater gender balance in societies. According to the Ethical and Theological Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, the Catholic health care ministry is embedded in a mission to improve and protect human dignity. This is the basis of its reverence for the sanctity of every human life from infancy to adulthood. Because of the success of the Church’s current deep networks in Ethiopia, other organizations are increasingly relying on them to provide more generalized social care.
Catholic Relief Services allows you the chance to make a big difference in the lives of the world’s poor and disadvantaged people. Following the diverse programs undertaken by the Catholic Church of Ethiopia, job opportunities to the locals have increased for decades (Hoddinott, 2019). As a consequence, the lives of these individuals have improved dynamically, thanks to the Catholic Church. CRS’s humanitarian efforts in Ethiopia also help farmers and entrepreneurs develop their living standards, advocate gender equality, galvanizes immunization, and reduces the effects of HIV.
The Catholic Institutions are well-known for the high standard of education and their focus on values-based instruction. Healthcare is known for its quality and holistic approach, which focuses on treating the entire person and is grounded in its integrity. Nuns from the Catholic Church are gaining important nursing skills to improve Ethiopia’s poor and rural populations. Nuns who train to be nurses aren’t just nurses (Worku, 2016). They are servant leaders who serve in several capacities in their societies. If a Sister has talents that could benefit their hospital or clinic, they would gladly share them. The success of the Church’s existing deep networks in these communities has meant that other agencies increasingly use these networks to deliver more general social.
References
Clarke, M. (2016). Impact Assessment in Practice: Case Studies from Save the Children Programs in Lao PDR and Afghanistan (Elsevier, 2015). She is completing a Masters of International Development at RMIT University. Kebede Bekere is a private development consultant in Ethiopia with a background in psychology and development. From 2005 to 2012, he worked for—Development Across Faith Boundaries.
Hoddinott, J. (2019). Social Protection in Ethiopia. In The Oxford Handbook of the Ethiopian Economy.
Ngetich, E. K. (2016). Catholic counter-reformation: a history of the Jesuits’ mission to Ethiopia 1557-1635. Studia historiae ecclesiasticae, 42(2), 104-115.
Nigussie, H. (2021). Back to the Village: Integrating Folk Media into Rural Food Security Communication in Ethiopia. In Re-imagining Communication in Africa and the Caribbean (pp. 273-292). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Worku, S. (2016). Impact of curricular reforms in the vocational education of Ethiopia.
