On Friday, the Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia was reported to have planned to announce to the world that the Ark of the Covenant, which he claimed has been kept hidden in a church in Ethiopia for millenia, would finally be unveiled for the world to see!

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=102119

Unfortunately, it appears that he later retracted this announcement, stating:

“I am not here to give proofs that the Ark is in Ethiopia, but I am here to say what I saw, what I know and I can attest to. I didn’t say that the Ark would be revealed to the world. It is a mystery, an object of veneration.”

You can read more about this at: http://nazret.com/blog/index.php?title=ethiopia_ark_of_the_covenant_not_to_be_r&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

Also, read more about the tradition that the Ark is in Ethiopia at the Smithsonian.com:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/ark-covenant-200712.html

Remains of the Apostle Paul?

In other news, Pope Benedict announced that bone fragments from the Apostle Paul have been found in St. Paul’s Basilica (I guess that would be a good place for them to be):

Pope Benedict announced on Sunday that fragments of bone from the first or second century had been found in a tomb in the Basilica of St Paul in Rome, which he said confirmed the belief that it housed the apostle’s remains.

“This seems to confirm the unanimous and undisputed tradition that these are the mortal remains on the Apostle Paul,” the pontiff said at St Paul’s-Outside-the-Walls, on the eve of the Feasts of St Peter and St Paul celebrated on Monday.

For more on this, see here: http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/st_paul_pope_basilica/2009/06/28/229488.html?s=al&promo_code=825B-1