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Thank you to my new followers. If you can believe it I am a socialist in the sense that a well developed social welfare system, distributing wealth is necessary. I am a #Royalist. ❤️ #princessofwales & #Ethiopian Monarchy. Humanist first, I am a gardener who loves nature.

@araujohistorian And from?!

@Islablonde It’s not OR.

Indeed, unprecedented apology. The Catholic Church was the LARGEST single owner of enslaved people in the Americas. Made its wealth from slavery. John Paul II rehearsed a rambling apology when he visited Gorée Island back in the 1990s. #slaveryarchive

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@asmarinothe1 Not stubborn. I recognise the nation of Tigrinya have succeded in creating their own independent state. An all power to them. But don't try to gaslight me about the real ancient history and its origins in the One Aetiopia.

@Islablonde 😩😩 okay, I give up. You to stubborn. You need to snap out of it.

Happy Independence day #Eritrea. If you ask the senewy weather beaten cushite old man in the picture, what the land is called he probably has som deep-time memory, passed down from his ancestors, a name to rival names out of Tolkien mythological fantasy. Nteworthy that Tolkien took the name Da'aroo, from these parts of Aetiopia, a native name for the sycamore tree, when he described the tree where Galadriel, the elven queen held her court. Did Tolkien ever visit Keren, in present day Eritrea? In Keren there is the big Sycamore tree, a Da'roo, where the apparition of Mary is believed to have happened. The tree is a shrine and pilgrimage site called Mariam D'aarit. Deep time memory is one thing, 80 years of ideological and political rewriting of the true identity of a nation is another thing. Today, it is those 80 years, called independent Eritrea, that is celebrated. Eritrea was never on African soil. Eritrea comes from Eritrea in the ionian city states in the time of Persian rule over the Greeks and the war between Greece and Persia in 449 BC. In 1886 after the scramble for Africa which divided African borderless nations(peoples), Italy gave this part of what was then Abyssinia, originally Aetiopia, the name Eritrea. Greek and Roman classical world is coming to your popular culture now with the new film, the Odyssey by Christopher Nolan. As the instant classics podcast hosts, Professor Mary Beard and her co host said, look to the East and South to get the more nuanced correct picture of the classical world. The classical world of antiquitu is not as solely European as it has been depicted since the rennaissance 16th century and enlightment(17century enlightment that led to decelararion of independence of America 18th century) #Eritrea #Cush #Ethiopia #Classics #antiquity

@asmarinothe1 Not saying anything. And anything is possible in deep time memory.

@Islablonde Mythical like as in Oden king of Asgard? So you saying originally it’s Ethiopian and the Greeks borrowed it from you? Cause some must have had it first.

🚨NEW: Kerry Kennedy has announced Late Show Host Stephen Colbert is the recipient of the 2025 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for his advocacy for free speech and speaking truth to power. RETWEET to congratulate Colbert on this honor!

The Vatican has produced a video to accompany the publication of Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical Letter Magnifica humanitas, on safeguarding the human person in the age of Artificial Intelligence

@asmarinothe1 But they are not Eritreans. They are Aetiopians.

@Islablonde It’s not that deep. “Eritrea” is a fitting name that Eritreans are attached to, and it can easily stay while we still cherish Medri Bahri as part of our history. By the way, why did Ethiopia drop “Abyssinia” for another Greek-origin name?

Now you can download and read Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas, the first encyclical of his pontificate. The document was released by the Holy See on May 25, 2026. The encyclical develops the Churchʼs social teaching in light of artificial intelligence, situating new questions of human dignity, labor, and the common good within the tradition that runs from Rerum Novarum through Centesimus Annus and Laudato Si'. Download and read the full encyclical as a PDF here: ewtnnews.com/vatican/full-t…

Today is the Feast of St. Bede the Venerable. Just thinking about the man RELAXES me. Bede was widely considered “The most observant and the happiest of all monks.” He was sent to his monastery to be educated at age 7 and decided to never leave. He is considered the Father of English History and recorded events from his era (he died in 735) that would have been forever lost. He came up with the dating system we still use today, setting the year ZERO at the birth of Christ. He’s the only Englishman Dante has showing up in heaven in The Divine Comedy, alongside the greats like Aquinas. Not a bad list of accomplishments for a guy who never left a small monastery in Northumbria. His death—and the spirit of the man—was captured by his friend and fellow monk, Cuthbert, and is considered one of the most intimate death accounts from early medieval history. It gives us an insight into the happiest of all monks. I’ll share a few of things Cuthbert wrote about Bede’s final hours. Then he said “‘If it so please my Maker, it is time for me to return to him who created me and formed me out of nothing when I did not exist. I have lived a long time, and the righteous Judge has taken good care of me during my whole life. The time has come for my departure, and I long to die and be with Christ. My soul yearns to see Christ, my King, in all his glory.’ He said many other things which profited us greatly, and so he passed the day joyfully till evening… Then he asked his brothers, “‘Hold my head in your hands, for I really enjoy sitting opposite the holy place where I used to pray; I can call upon my Father as I sit there.’ And so Bede, as he lay upon the floor of his cell, sang, ‘Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.’ And when he had named the Holy Spirit, he breathed his last breath.” Wow! What a way to go. What stands out to me about the man is two words: gentle joy. An insight into where that came from can be found in a homily he gave on the Holy Spirit; about why the DOVE is a perfect image for the Third Person of the Blessed Trinity: “The dove is a stranger to malice. So may all bitterness, anger and indignation be taken away from us, together with all malice. The dove injures nothing with its mouth or talons, nor does it nourish itself or its young on tiny mice or grubs, as do almost all smaller birds. Let us see that our teeth are not weapons and arrows.” As THE historian of his era, Bede knew all the chaos and evils surrounding him. But he didn’t lose himself in it. He didn’t get jaded. The news of the day that he knew in his mind didn’t fill his heart. The gentleness of God did, and he worked to embody that gentleness to everyone around him. It’s no wonder he was the happiest of all the monks. I want that peace. I want to be filled with the gentleness of God. I wanna be like Bede. Come, Holy Spirit, give me the strength to be gentle in the midst of the evils of the world. Give me that FRUIT of your gentleness. Signup for the Daily Anchor here: bit.ly/48Xfhfk, and receive reflections like this each day!

@Guzik_Paulina @timnitGebru time to become desciple of Pope Leo XIV 😃

Christopher Olah, a Canadian billionaire businessman and researcher who co-founded AI giant Anthropic, sitting in the Synodal Hall and speaking next to Pope Leo said, closing his speech: "I'd like to close with a request. We need more of the world - religious communities, civil society, scholars, governments - to do what His Holiness has done here: to take this seriously, to look closely, and to push events in a better direction. We need informed critics who will tell the labs when we are failing. We need moral voices that the incentives cannot bend. Today is just the beginning - the start of a long collaboration between those of us who are building this and those who can see what we, from inside, cannot. Today is a powerful illustration of the form this global project of good will might take. Let it also be a decisive first step toward a hopeful future for magnificent humanity."

@asmarinothe1 Given by the coloniser. Not a native name.

@Islablonde Okay, he quickly clarifies to the audience not to confuse ancient Erythrae with modern Eritrea. As Google confirms, “Erythrae” refers to both an Ionian Greek state and the Red Sea. For a country with over 1,000 km of Red Sea coastline, it’s actually a very fitting name.

On Africa Liberation Day, I pay my respects to a great Pan-Africanist, WEB DuBois, a communist and a pioneer sociologist and historian, buried in his favourite gazebo in Accra, Ghana.

In his first #encyclical "#Magnificahumanitas", on the Church's social doctrine in the era of #ArtificialIntelligence, Pope Leo XIV appeals for the safeguarding of humanity, promotion of truth, dignity of work, social justice, and peace. vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2…

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery and for failing to condemn it for centuries. apnews.com/article/pope-a…

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV published his landmark encyclical on artificial intelligence "Magnifica Humanitas,” comparing the attempt to build an AI future that excludes God to the "Tower of Babel" and underlining the need to safeguard human dignity as it is "threatened by new forms of dehumanization." "The risk of dehumanization -- of building a future that excludes God and reduces the other to a means -- is an ancient and ever-new temptation that today takes on a technical guise," Pope Leo said. "In the era of artificial intelligence, when human dignity is threatened by new forms of dehumanization, ours is the pressing duty to remain profoundly human. We must lovingly safeguard the grandeur of humanity bestowed upon us and revealed in its fullness in Christ, the splendor of which no machine can ever replace.”

The Crucifixion of Palestine

Today, the Church celebrates the memorial of Mary, Mother of the Church, a title that reminds us that Mary is not only the Mother of Jesus, but also our spiritual mother. This title “Mother of the Church” has been used since the early Church by saints like St. Augustine and St. Ambrose, and it was officially proclaimed by Pope St. Paul VI during the Second Vatican Council in 1964. At the foot of the Cross, Jesus said to Mary, “Behold your son,” and to the disciple, “Behold your mother” (John 19:26–27). From that moment, the Church has always seen Mary as mother to all believers. Mary was also present with the Apostles at Pentecost, praying with them as the Holy Spirit came upon the Church. She has remained a mother who walks with the Church in faith, prayer, and hope. In 2018, Pope Francis added this memorial to the Church calendar on the Monday after Pentecost. In every season of life, Mary continues to lead us gently to her Son, Jesus. Mary, Mother of the Church, pray for us.