Christianity has been practiced in Ethiopia long before the United States was a blip on anyone’s radar, and a good while before Roman Catholicism really took off.
I loved learning a lot about the Ethiopian Orthodox believers, Black Jesus, church forests, and all the fasting that goes on.
Among both believers and non-believers, I don’t think anyone quite gives enough credit to how vast the span of Christian denominations and practices are across the globe and across time. It’s way too easy to take only the expression we’re most familiar with and extrapolate that across the whole globe.
Personally, I love the awareness of being a part of something bigger, richer, and older than myself, my country, or the span of years I get to spend on the earth.