For years, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church has been one of the few institutions that helped bind this war-riven country together, unifying disparate ethnic groups around worship as their ...

The violence erupted against a backdrop of tensions in the ancient Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church after rebel bishops created their own synod in Oromia, the country's most populous region.

Ethiopian Orthodox priests form a procession during an anniversary celebration at the St Michael Church in Mekelle, the capital of the Tigray region of Ethiopia, on June 19, 2021 [Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP] ...

AMBO, Ethiopia — For years, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church has been one of the few institutions that helped bind this war-riven country together, unifying disparate ethnic groups around ...

In December 2023, Abune Lukas, the head of monasteries in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, archbishop of the diocese of Australia and New Zealand, and a member of the holy synod, condemned the Ethiopian ...

Catholic Bishops have extended their “deep condolences” to His Holiness Abune Mathias, Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, following the government’s decision to “think of ...

The head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Abune Mathias, has called on all bishops around the world to urgently convene in the capital, Addis Ababa, as the church faces a major split.

Bishop Yohannes placed his hand on his Bible and, reading from St Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians, delivered a message to his former peers in the Ethiopian Orthodox church: “Whatever one sows ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange, on Thursday December 1, 2022, received a delegation from the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, headed ...

The violence erupted against a backdrop of tensions in the ancient Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church after rebel bishops created their own synod in Oromia, the country's most populous region.