The days, hours, minutes and even seconds of the countdown clock on the website of the Ethiopian Council of Gospel Believers' Churches (ECGBC) all show zero, below the optimistic words: "Coming Soon". Yet the ECGBC will mark its second year of existence in May. It was Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed himself who presided over the creation of this body amid the pomp of the presidential palace in Addis Ababa, in the presence of all the country's Protestant elite. On that day, the assembly elected Rev Eyasu