Holy War: Italy’s Crusade Against Ethiopia by Ian Campbell (.ePUB)
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Holy War: The Untold Story of Catholic Italy’s Crusade Against the Ethiopian Orthodox Church by Ian Campbell
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Overview: In 1935, Fascist Italy invaded the sovereign state of Ethiopia–a war of conquest that triggered a chain of events culminating in the Second World War. In this stunning and highly original tale of two Churches, historian Ian Campbell brings a whole new perspective to the story, revealing that bishops of the Italian Catholic Church facilitated the invasion by sanctifying it as a crusade against the world’s second-oldest national Church. Cardinals and archbishops rallied the support of Catholic Italy for Il Duce’s invading armies by denouncing Ethiopian Christians as heretics and schismatics and announcing that the onslaught was an assignment from God.
Campbell marshals evidence from three decades of research to expose the martyrdom of thousands of clergy of the venerable Ethiopian Church, the burning and looting of hundreds of Ethiopia’s ancient monasteries and churches, and the instigation and arming of a jihad against Ethiopian Christendom, the likes of which had not been seen since the Middle Ages.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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