WASHINGTON — 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 ...
This weekend, Orthodox Christians, including many from the Ethiopian community in the D.C. area, are celebrating Fasika, or Easter, marking the end of the 55-day fast called Abiy Tsome, or the Great ...
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, ...
What the Ethiopian Orthodox have learned from the expansion of evangelicals. Preacher Yoshanis Asrat's frenzied homily pulsed over the tin shacks and mud homes of the Megenanga neighborhood in Addis ...
As most of D.C. slept early Sunday morning, incense clouded the massive hall at an Ethiopian cathedral in Northeast Washington, and hundreds of parishioners dressed in white chanted to a rhythmic ...
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” ...
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 ...