Holy Door to Remain Open in Two Parishes in Ethiopia’s Awasa Apostolic Vicariate During Church’s 2025 Jubilee Year

He adds that while “some other indications may be given later on … much room remains for the creativity of the parishes and groups in order to help our Christian community to live meaningfully this event of grace.”

“I invite you to get more information from the Internet or from other sources in order to enter yourselves into the atmosphere of the Year and so be able to transmit it to our Christians,” Mons. Núñez says in his statement in which he also encourages the people of God in Awasa to develop creative ways to engage in the 2025 Jubilee Year.

Referring to the homily of Pope Francis during the opening of the Jubilee Year on December 24, the Apostolic Administrator says, “The Jubilee gives us the opportunity to recover lost hope, to renew that hope in our hearts, and to sow hope amid the bleakness of our time.” 

“Apart from its spiritual dimension of the remission of sins, the Jubilee has always had a public and social dimension, and Pope Francis wants to keep it alive,” he says.

The Apostolic Administrator of Awasa cites Pope Francis’ message for the forthcoming World Day of Peace, 1 January 2025, focusing on three proposals.

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“First, the condonation of the debt of the poor countries; second, the respect for the dignity of human life from conception to natural death, third, at least, a fixed percentage of the money earmarked for armament to establish a global Fund to eradicate hunger,” Mons. Núñez says.

Awasa Apostolic Vicariate became vacant in September 2024 following the transfer of Bishop Roberto Bergamaschi, who had been at the helm of the Vicariate since June 2016, to the Apostolic Vicariate of Gambella.

On 15 November 2024, Pope Francis appointed Mons. Gobezayehu Getachew Yilma as the Bishop for Awasa Apostolic Vicariate. 

Until his appointment, Mons. Getachew was serving as Vicar Delegate of Ethiopia’s Apostolic Vicariate of Meki and Executive Director of the Diocesan Caritas.

Once Consecrated Bishop, Mons. Getachew will become the 5th Bishop of the Vicariate in the Horn of Africa nation that was erected on 25 March 1937 as Prefecture Apostolic of Neghelli before being elevated to its current state in October 1969.