If you are to ever make it to the Abuna Garima monastery in Ethiopia’s Tigrai Highlands, you would find a book that is highly revered by local monks and believed to be one of the Christian world’s ...

An Orthodox priest at Nakuto Lab Rock Church, outside Lalibela, Ethiopia. About three-quarters of Orthodox Ethiopians say they attend church every week. (Eric Lafforgue/Art in All of Us/Corbis via ...

Stop me if you’ve heard this story before. It’s about an ancient church with a near monopoly of religious practice and a stunning tradition of artistic achievement. Ordinary people love the church as ...

(JTA) — Tel Aviv University announced the launch of what it says is the world’s first academic program focused on the holy scriptures of Ethiopian Jews. The program, aimed currently at graduate ...

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 ...

Mariyam Yohannis sat on a bench under a gazebo at Lake Ella four years ago. It was August of 2015, and she was soon to be on her way — on a mission she had dreamed about for years. She was as ...

As the humanitarian issues escalate in the largely Orthodox north, the conflict tests evangelicals’ loyalty and theology. There’s one thing that all evangelical Christians in Ethiopia can agree on: ...

Orthodox Christians around the world display widely varying levels of religious observance. For example, while just 6% of Orthodox Christians in Russia say they attend church on a weekly basis, a ...