"It was in my mother's womb that I had a dream that I would build a church before I die," he said. Construction of Bata Lemariam Church (Church of the Presentation of Mary in the Temple) is underway and is expected to take about a year to complete. The seven surviving siblings of the Pollock family, photographed in 2015, are supporting the construction of a church in Arekit, Ethiopia. "Where we build the church, side by side, we build schools, clinics, activities for the development of the community." They had worshipped in the Orthodox Church in childhood, but they eventually started attending the local Catholic church and were all received into the Catholic Church at the same time.

Source: Ethiopian News July 14, 2023 06:44 UTC