Angels on Earth magazine

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SUNDAY NIGHT, I was thinking about making dinner when the phone rang.

“Turn on CBS,” a voice said.

“What?”

Click. The caller hung up.

No, it wasn’t code or a message from heaven. It was just my mom. She sometimes made calls like that when she was watching something on live TV that she didn’t want me to miss but had no time to explain because she didn’t want to miss a minute of it herself. I turned on CBS.

Once I did, I understood the urgency. How was it possible that I never heard of the miracle being discussed on this news program? A medieval wonder that is known as Lalibela.

Lalibela is a small

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