Ethiopian priests and monks walk during the annual festival of Timkat in Lalibela, Ethiopia. The festival celebrates the Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River. During Timkat, the Tabot, a model of the ...

This year marks the 500th year anniversary of the launching of the Protestant Reformation in Germany. Commemorations will be held from Memphis to Mombasa to Mumbai to Munich. Yet, most events and ...

CLINTON - Four centuries after the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, Ethiopian King Ezana embraced Christianity in the kingdom of Aksum, beginning the diffusion of the new religion’s beliefs and art ...

As home to one of the world’s oldest Christian cultures, Ethi­opia preserves many practices and beliefs dating back to ancient times. But far from being a museum relic, Ethiopian Christianity is a ...

Africa’s youngest head of state heals the wounds of one of its oldest churches. Ending 27 years of schism, Ethiopian Orthodox Christians in their homeland and in America reunited the two feuding ...

night and day by a wizened Ethiopian monk in the wilds of that northeast African nation. Kathryn Saclarides, a former Orthodox Christian missionary to Ethiopia, will report on Ethiopia's guardianship ...

According to his Hagiography, Saint Lalibela, carved the churches over twenty-four years with the command of Lord Jesus Christ and the assistance of angels. ...I swear by God in whose power I am, all ...

Propaganda video released the same day Justin Welby arrives in Cairo to honor the previous 21 victims. Once again, ISIS has orchestrated and filmed the dramatic mass killing of African Christians who ...

A distant part of Ethiopia last week celebrated the baptisms of 300 adult catechumens, youth, and infants. "Today when you receive this great Sacrament of Baptism you become sons and daughters of God, ...

Saudi Arabia’s notorious religious police, known as the mutawa, swooped in on a private gathering of at least 53 Ethiopian Christians this month, shutting down their private prayer, and arresting the ...