Thomas Sowell: “It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”
Pennsylvania House of Representatives passes H.R. 441, officially recognizing Adwa Victory Day.
Watch highlights from the Pennsylvania House floor, including remarks by Representative Sanchez, during the passage of H.R. 441 officially recognising Adwa Victory Day.
AEPAC sincerely appreciates the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for passing this important resolution honouring one of the most significant victories in African and world history. The Victory of Adwa remains a powerful symbol of freedom, unity, sovereignty, and resistance against colonialism.
We extend our gratitude to the bill sponsors, legislative leadership, and all members who supported this historic recognition.
#AdwaVictoryDay #HR441 #PennsylvaniaHouse #AEPAC #EthiopianHistory #Adwa
HOW DETACHMENT MAKES LIFE EASIER
Many people misunderstand detachment.
Detachment does not mean you stop loving people.
It means you stop losing your peace trying to control things that were never yours to control.
The Buddha taught that attachment is one of the greatest causes of suffering.
Not because love is wrong...
but because the mind clings to people, outcomes, and circumstances as if they were meant to stay forever.
Yet everything in life changes.
The more we resist that truth,
the more we suffer.
1. Detachment frees you from constant disappointment
The tighter you hold expectations about people, outcomes, or life itself, the more pain you experience when reality takes a different path.
Detachment allows you to appreciate life without demanding that it unfold exactly as you planned.
2. You stop needing everyone's approval
A detached mind no longer depends on validation to feel worthy.
You realize that your value does not rise or fall based on someone else's opinion.
True peace begins when your self-worth comes from within.
3. You learn to accept change instead of fearing it
People leave.
Situations end.
Emotions shift.
Detachment teaches you to move with life's changes instead of fighting them.
What leaves was never meant to stay forever.
4. You suffer less from overthinking
Much of anxiety comes from mentally holding on to what you cannot control.
The detached mind lets go of endless "what ifs" and creates space for calm, clarity, and presence.
5. You love people more purely
Attachment says:
"Don't change.
Don't leave.
Make me feel secure."
Detachment says:
"I am grateful for your presence,
but I do not need to possess you to love you."
This is where love becomes freedom instead of fear.
6. You stop forcing what isn't meant for you
A detached person understands that not every door is meant to remain open.
Sometimes rejection is redirection.
Sometimes loss is protection.
And sometimes endings make room for something better.
7. Your emotions stop controlling your decisions
When attachment is strong, fear, desperation, and insecurity often drive your choices.
Detachment creates space between feeling and reaction.
That space is where wisdom lives.
8. You become harder to break
A peaceful mind understands that happiness cannot depend entirely on temporary things.
When your peace comes from within,
life's changes can shake you,
but they cannot destroy you.
A monk once said:
"Hold everything gently.
Because the tighter you hold life,
the more life hurts when it changes."
Detachment is not coldness.
It is not indifference.
It is not giving up.
It is emotional freedom.
It is the ability to care deeply,
love fully,
and appreciate life completely...
without losing yourself when things change.
Because true peace begins the moment you stop trying to hold on to what was never meant to stay forever.
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𝐀𝐫𝐬𝐢 𝐈𝐬 𝐂𝐫𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐈𝐬 𝐋𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠?
The slaughter of innocent Christians continues unabated in the Arsi area of Oromia region in 🇪🇹. Clergy are being killed, churches burned, and tens of thousands of civilians displaced from their homes. Yet the violence persists with little accountability. The world must not look away while entire communities suffer in silence.
1⃣ Attacks against Orthodox Christian communities in Arsi and East Arsi have been reported repeatedly since late 2025. https://t.co/pvlpqTutJL
2⃣ On February 26–28, 2026, attacks in East Arsi reportedly killed between 20 and 34 Orthodox Christians, including clergy, according to church, human rights, and religious sources. https://t.co/jNaq3vXCTj
3⃣ Religious bodies including the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the Ethiopian Islamic Affairs Supreme Council, the Inter-Religious Council of Ethiopia, the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Ethiopia, and the World Council of Churches publicly condemned the killings and called for accountability. https://t.co/f8ceoq07NO
4⃣ A new wave of deadly violence has swept through Ethiopia's East Arsi Zone in Oromia Region, leaving up to 49 orthdox christians dead, churches destroyed, and hundreds of residents fleeing into nearby forests in what community leaders and religious authorities describe as an escalating security crisis targeting civilians. https://t.co/LC9n4CtLT1
The world should show solidarity with the #EOTC We keep saying, ‘Never again,’ but it keeps happening. There’s connection between what’s happened in Rwanda and what’s currently happening in Ethiopia against Orthodox believers & Amharas. Make genocide prevention a priority.
When civilians and religious leaders are deliberately targeted because of their faith, when violence is used to spread fear, and when attacks become systematic and ideological - that is not “conflict.” That is terrorism. Orthodox Christians are being massacred for their identity by ethno-religious militias engaging in sectarian terror.
#Ethiopia #OrthodoxChristian #ReligiousPersecution #ChristianPersecution #HumanRights #StopReligiousViolence #FreedomOfReligion #SectarianViolence #PeaceForEthiopia #Justice
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@AbiyAhmedAli
The world watches in silence as thousands of children, women & priests have been killed in Arsi, Oromia 🇪🇹. The latest massacre on July 1, 2026, claimed 13 more lives. Their only "crime" was being #OrthodoxChristians. The victims deserve justice #Howmuchlonger@hrw@AP@Pontifex
🧵A 2024 peer-reviewed study published in Religions journal (MDPI) by researcher Sileshie Semahagne Kumlachew reveals how the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church has become a “religious other” in its own homeland. #EOTC#OrthodoxUnderAttack#Ethiopia
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