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===Unity and the ECFE=== The ECFE, or Evangelical Church Fellowship of Ethiopia, is a consortium of [[Born again|born-again]], [[Trinity|Trinitarian]] Christians.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://2001-2009.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2005/51472.htm|title=ECFE and non-ecfe church listings|date=9 June 2005|publisher=State.gov|access-date=22 March 2016}}</ref> The ECFE has 22 member churches, and based on 2004 statistics, 11.5 million members.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://atheism.about.com/library/irf/irf04/blirf_ethiopia.htm |title=Evangelical church fellowship in 2004 |access-date=3 February 2007 |archive-date=29 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081029165541/http://atheism.about.com/library/irf/irf04/blirf_ethiopia.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> All P'ent'ay churches, regardless of denomination, are domestically known as አብያተ ክርስቲያናት ('''Abiate kristianat' '''or ābiyate kirisitīyanati'){{Citation needed|date=February 2021}} meaning 'churches' in the senses of a 'community of Christians' in Amharic, the official working federal language of Ethiopia.<ref>{{Cite web|last=AfricaNews|date=4 March 2020|title=One to five: Ethiopia gets four new federal working languages|url=https://www.africanews.com/2020/03/04/one-to-five-ethiopia-gets-four-new-federal-working-languages/|access-date=15 December 2020|website=Africanews|language=en}}</ref> Most of these denominations also operate ministries, colleges and bible societies like the Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology, Golden Oil Ministries, Evangelical Theological College, the Ethiopian Bible Society and Meserete Kristos College.<ref>[http://www.globalgoodnews.org/Churches_in_Ethiopia.htm ECFE churches and services] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070812131759/http://www.globalgoodnews.org/Churches_in_Ethiopia.htm|date=12 August 2007}}</ref> These churches often work together by exchanging preachers and organizing church conferences.
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