Ethiopia

In 1972 the first Spiritans came to Ethiopia in response to their call as a congregation of missionaries.  This decision followed an expulsion of Irish Spiritans from Nigeria during the civil war in the late 1960s.  At the same time a team of Dutch and American Spiritans working in Tanzania were also interested in expanding their missionary work to another country. They chose Ethiopia as a place where many separate tribes had not yet been evangelized; had not yet heard of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.