NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in his first public comments on the war in the country’s Tigray region is sharply criticizing Ethiopia’s actions, saying he believes ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) – The head of Ethiopia’s Orthodox Church has said that atrocities amounting to genocide are being committed in Tigray, in his first comments on the conflict in the region that broke ...

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.

Today's martyrs have become "the seed of Christian unity," Pope Francis said Monday during an audience with the leader of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and his delegation. "The ecumenism of ...

“The ecumenism of martyrs is an invitation for us (here and now) to follow the path toward more and more meaningful unity together”. Those words were spoken by the Pope on receiving Patriarch of the ...

As the Roman Catholic Church in the Vatican prepares to elect a new Pope under much media scrutiny and fanfare, one of the oldest Christian churches has already chosen its own new leader with much ...

Pope Francis Sunday asked for prayer for persecuted Orthodox Christians in Ethiopia, who have been targeted in ongoing ethnic clashes that have left 78 people dead. "I am saddened by the violence of ...

Image caption, Abune Mathias will be the sixth patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church The Ethiopian Orthodox Church has elected a new head six months after the death of the previous patriarch.

Nairobi, Kenya — The head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in his first public comments on the war in the country’s Tigray region is sharply criticizing Ethiopia’s actions, saying he believes it’s ...

Abune Mathias will be the sixth patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church The Ethiopian Orthodox Church has elected a new head six months after the death of the previous patriarch. Abune Mathias, 71, ...