question: Abba Garima Monastery is a member of one of the few pre-colonial Christian Churches in Sub-Saharan Africa that gained what in 1959?
answer: autocephaly
context: Title: North American Christian Convention
  Passage: The North American Christian Convention is an annual summer convention supported by churches, colleges, institutions, and missions programs associated with the Christian churches and churches of Christ, mainly across the United States, but also in other parts of the world.  First started in 1927, it has gradually grown over the years in both attendance and location.  The NACC was held annually after 1927 until the end of that decade; the deprivations brought about by the Great Depression and the dislocations caused by World War II contributed to its being held only three times in the 1930s and four times in the 1940s; since 1950 it has again become an annual event.  Ministers from churches across the United States have come and spoken at the event, as well as other well-known speakers and authors of the Christian community.  The NACC Mission statement is "the connecting place providing ideas, inspiration, and identity to New Testament Christian Churches and their leaders."  Philosophically this organization gives all their credit to Jesus Christ.
  Title: World Evangelical Alliance
  Passage: The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) is a global organization of evangelical Christian churches, serving more than 600 million evangelicals, founded in 1846 in London, England to unite evangelicals worldwide.  WEA is the largest international organization of evangelical churches, and is now headquartered in New York City, United States.  It brings together 7 regional and 129 evangelical alliances of churches, and over 150 member organizations.  Some of the national alliances include Protestant churches which are not traditional Evangelical churches in the strict sense (anabaptism), (Networks & Church Denominations).  Moreover, the WEA includes a certain percentage of individual evangelical Christian churches.  It is open for membership of individual evangelical Christians (as compared to the World Council of Churches (WCC), where individual membership is not possible).  The Evangelical Alliance of Great Britain, its founding member, is part of WEA.
  Title: Right for Education
  Passage: Right for Education (R:Ed) is an international, non-governmental organization based in Ghana and focused on improving education for adults and children, as well as increasing knowledge on a variety of topics including health, technology, environment, business and human rights.  It operates in more than 35 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, delivering information in both English and French.  Right for Education aims to allow others to help themselves through access to free educational materials.  As a result, the organisation has no political or religious ties and encourages free thinking and debate between its members.  The organisation's ambitions are consistent with Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as produced by the United Nations.  R:Ed has hundreds of thousands of users in Sub-Saharan Africa, and continues to engage an average of 300,000 followers on a weekly basis.  The Right for Education community on Facebook currently encompasses over 4.5 Million users in Sub-Saharan Africa.
  Title: Dorotheus of Gaza
  Passage: Dorotheus of Gaza (Greek: Δωρόθεος τῆς Γάζης "Dorotheos tes Gazes"; 505 – 565 or 620,) or Abba Dorotheus, was a Christian monk and abbot.  He joined the monastery Abba Serid (or Abba Sveridus) near Gaza through the influence of elders Barsanuphius and John.  Around 540 he founded his own monastery nearby and became abbot there.  He wrote instructions for monks (ἀσκητικά , "ascetics") of which a considerable number have survived and have been compiled into "Directions on Spiritual Training", originally composed in Greek and translated in medieval Syriac, Arabic, Georgian, and Church Slavonic.  Abba Dorotheus (St. Dorotheus the Hermit of Kemet) is recognized as a saint by the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church and Oriental Orthodox Church with his Feast Day on June 5 in the Roman Catholic Church and June 18 (June 5 old style) in Churches of Eastern Orthodox tradition.
  Title: Educational technology in sub-Saharan Africa
  Passage: Educational technology in sub-Saharan Africa refers to the promotion, development and use of information and communication technologies (ICT), m-learning, media, and other technological tools to improve aspects of education in sub-Saharan Africa.  Since the 1960s, various information and communication technologies have aroused strong interest in sub-Saharan Africa as a way of increasing access to education, and enhancing its quality and fairness.
  Title: Nine Saints
  Passage: The Nine Saints were a group of missionaries who were important in the initial growth of Christianity in what is now Ethiopia during the late 5th century.  Their names were Abba Aftse, Abba Alef, Abba Aragawi, Abba Garima (Isaac, or Yeshaq), Abba Guba, Abba Liqanos, Abba Pantelewon, Abba Sehma, and Abba Yem’ata.  Although frequently described as coming from Syria, only two or three actually came from that province; according to Paul B. Henze, others have been traced to Constantinople, Anatolia, and even Rome.
  Title: American Foundation for Children with AIDS
  Passage: The American Foundation for Children with AIDS (AFCA) is a non-profit organization that helps children in sub-Saharan Africa, as well as their guardians, who are HIV positive or who have contracted AIDS and lack access to appropriate medical care.  Sub-Saharan Africa has been most affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, given that of all new HIV infections in the world, those in sub-Saharan Africa account for more than two-thirds of that number, as of 2008.  In helping to fight the battle against HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, AFCA provides critical antiretroviral medicine and other related medications, medical equipment and supplies, nutritional supplements, emergency supplies needed by the institutions in AFCA’s targeted areas, as well as critical support for the prevention of HIV/AIDS, which included training of personnel.  Currently, AFCA collaborates with twenty-eight partners in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.
  Title: Water supply and sanitation in Senegal
  Passage: Water supply and sanitation in Senegal is characterized by a relatively high level of access compared to the average of Sub-Saharan Africa.  One of the interesting features is a public-private partnership (PPP) that has been operating in Senegal since 1996, with Senegalaise des Eaux (SDE), a subsidiary of , as the private partner.  It does not own the water system but manages it on a 10-year lease contract with the Senegalese government.  Between 1996 and 2014, water sales doubled to 131 million cubic meters per year and the number of household connections increased by 165% to more than 638,000.  According to the World Bank, "the Senegal case is regarded as a model of public-private partnership in sub-Saharan Africa".  Another interesting feature is the existence of a national sanitation company in charge of sewerage, wastewater treatment and stormwater drainage, which has been modeled on the example of the national sanitation company of Tunisia and is unique in Sub-Saharan Africa.
  Title: Abba Garima Monastery
  Passage: Abba Garima Monastery is an Ethiopian Orthodox church, located around five kilometres east of Adwa, in the Mehakelegnaw Zone of the northern Tigray Region in Ethiopia.  Founded in the sixth century by one of the Nine Saints, Abba Garima and built by King Gabra Masqal (also Gebre Meskel), it became known for its early manuscript copy of the gospels and its treasury.
  Title: Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
  Passage: The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (Amharic: ; transliterated Amharic: "Yäityop'ya ortodoks täwahedo bétäkrestyan") is the largest of the Oriental Orthodox Christian Churches.  One of the few pre-colonial Christian Churches in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church has a membership of between 45 and 50 million people, the majority of whom live in Ethiopia.  It is a founding member of the World Council of Churches.  The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church is in communion with the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria having gained autocephaly in 1959.
citations: Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church Abba Garima Monastery