Human Interest News from Gonder : An anecdote as narrated

By T, Staffer of De Birhan Media

22/05/2012

“It was June 24, 1981, the Feast of John the Baptist, the proclaimer of the coming Messiah. In the evening the Virgin Mary appeared to two young people, Mirjana Dragicevic * and Ivanka Ivankovic.* The next day, four more young people, Marija Pavlovic,* Jakov Colo, Vicka Ivankovic,* and Ivan Dragicevic saw the Virgin Mary, bringing the total to six visionaries. These visionaries are not related to one another. Three of the six visionaries no longer see Our Lady on a daily basis. As of July, 2009, the Virgin is still appearing every day to the remaining three visionaries; that’s well over 12,820 apparitions.” reads  Medjugorje.com.    

These kids were following what they have been seeing and communicating with it. When they later told their parents and neighbors what they saw and talked, they were criticized and nobody believed them. After a lot of religious “tests”, it was declared later that the apparition and miracles of Our Mother Mary in Medjugorje were true. Countless miracles, cures and visits take place in the area still today.

Međugorje or Medjugorje  is a town located in western Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the Herzegovina region around 25 km (16 mi) southwest of Mostar and close to the border of Croatia. The town is parto of the municipality of Čitluk. Since 1981, it has become a popular site of religious pilgrimage due to reports of apparitions of the Virgin Mary to six local Catholics.




^Gonder

Ethiopia is a land of miracles. Such miracles where people live and survive with just under a dollar a day and such miracles where diseases that have been declared “cureless” by modern day doctors, are healed cured and wiped out. It takes a lot to believe it or even consider it sensical to a digitalised mind of ours. But there are miracles in Ethiopia I tell you, especially religious ones.

I adulate human interest news items. There are millions of them back home, were there eyes that can perceive them. So farther that I am from my home, I, therefore, am hit with human interest news destitution. The following “scuttlebutt” had come to me from a very very reliable source. I had to think a lot before noting it down because it was less substantiated and fails to fulfil at least few of the basic news values. It is just an anecdote of my closest source who has been to Gonder and who came across this narrative. Do you recall one of those kinds of narrations that you were told when you were a kid and you said opening your little mouth and twinkling eyes wide, “weyyyyyyy gudddddddd”. It sounds one of those kinds hard to believe fictious stories but I am saying one more time since the true narration came from a person I trust, feeds me with policy level and status quo news leaks, am sharing it with you.

The incident has been happening over the past few months. They are three rural kids between roughly the ages of 8 years old girls in Yifag (pronounced as yeefag), a town in "Kemekem" woreda of southern Gonder, located southwest of Addis Zemen, and a short distance away from Lake Tana , Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia. My narrator says that these three kinds have been taken by a “severe cyclonic storm” on Miyazia 18 (April 28) 2012 at around 3pm in the afternoon and were taken to "another world" for three hours. The kids were members of the Sunday Church School at the local Selasie (Trinity) Church.   After hours of disappearance, they were found back and to the delight of their families they were all safe. Few days later, the kids began showing miracles; disabled people, sick and aching patients these kids touched, were getting immediately cured and healed. This news went viral and people from villages to towns afar came in search of healing from the kids. Of the three kids one of them is said to have been sick for weeks and was suspected by the other two as showing "satanic and skeptical behaviors". According to the narrator, the two kids and the community were unable to handle the overflow of people estimated to be well over 10,000 in the past two weeks before the local government and police stopped it.  Miraculous Holy Water has also sprung where the kids were conducting the "healing". The children have been in hiding since the past two weeks unable to manage the number of people coming from all corners of the country. The two children are named Serke and Helen. 

That was the human interest news. We may see this narration covered by other mainstream media in detail soon, provided that it is as accurate as I was gossiped about. Aren’t I lucky to share this anecdote first to you though?