A deep rift within the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOTC) has widened, with Oromo bishops formally establishing the breakaway “Oromia Orthodox Tewahedo Church” on 23 January. The newly ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the U.S. capital, hundreds of Ethiopians dressed in traditional white shawls chant in the ancient liturgical language of one of the oldest branches of Christianity. During ...

Dressed head to toe in white, hundreds of Ethiopian Orthodox Christians packed tightly into Washington, D.C.’s DSK Mariam Church to sing hymns in the ancient language Ge’ez, to pray, and to stand ...

The FINANCIAL — Ethiopia has the largest Orthodox Christian population outside Europe, and, by many measures, Orthodox Ethiopians have much higher levels of religious commitment than do Orthodox ...

Ethiopia’s orthodox church has elected a new leader of the influential body in the predominantly Christian nation. Abune Matias, 71, was Thursday named the 6th Patriarch of the church officially known ...

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, ...

The crisis erupted last month when three rebel archbishops ordained 26 new bishops from Oromia and Southern Ethiopia, claiming their cultures were marginalised by the mainstream Orthodox clergy. They ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — In his Easter message this week, Patriarch Abune Mathias, head of Ethiopia’s Orthodox Church, vowed to fight homosexuality, saying it will bring destruction to the world. ADDIS ...

The head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church has condemned his own country’s rulers in a video recorded by the director of a US-based charity, saying “they want to destroy the people of Tigray” ...

UPDATE: Interviews conducted with witnesses and survivors by The Associated Press this week add more credence to reports of large-scale violence in Axum and around the Our Lady Mary of Zion Church, ...