WASHINGTON – Hundreds of Ethiopian immigrants gathered at a church here recently to mourn Archbishop Abuna Yesehaq Mandefro, who spent decades launching congregations throughout the United States and ...

FILE PHOTO: Ethiopian Orthodox faithful attend Epiphany celebration to commemorate the baptism of Jesus Christ on Lake Dambal in Batu town of Oromia Region NAIROBI (Reuters) - Access to social media ...

People inspect the scene of a wooden scaffolding collapse at the St. Mary Orthodox Church that killed faithful in Arerti, Ethiopia, October 2, 2025. REUTERS/ Tiksa Negeri MINJAR SHENKORA, Ethiopia ...

The Ethiopian Forest Churches are exactly what the Benedict Option should look like on a conceptual scale: it is not a fleeing from the world but a conserving of the good, true, and beautiful — the ...

How Tewahedo Orthodox theology led congregations to become an oasis of forest conservation. In church, Getnet Alemayehu’s father liked to sit beneath a tree, one he had planted himself. In its shade ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Leaders of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church have agreed to resolve their differences peacefully after weeks of deadly confrontations between rival followers of the synod and ...

For hundreds of Ethiopian immigrants, a southeast Houston church is more than a place to worship God. Debre Selam Medhanealem Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo Church is a touch of a home half a world away, ...

Ethiopian Christians took to the streets Sunday in a mass protest against the burning of churches and attacks on worshipers around the country. Since last July, 30 churches have been attacked, while ...

Abuna Yemata Guh is one of more than 100 rock-hewn churches in northern Ethiopia, but it’s the only one that requires climbing up a 1,000-foot cliff face to reach. Father Assefa, 64, has done it every ...

They’re one greatest cultural and religious treasures not only in Ethiopia but also in Africa and in Christendom: the ancient rock-hewn churches of Lalibela. And now a United Nations agency is worried ...

TPLF forces have taken control of one of Christianity’s oldest heritage sites. The fate of the ancient rock-hewn churches of northern Ethiopia has become a grave concern for Ethiopian Americans, as a ...