Ethiopia’s Orthodox Christians are celebrating Christmas with prayers for peace in the Horn of Africa nation that has faced ...

Orthodox Christians in Ethiopia follow the Julian calendar, which is 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar used by Catholic ...

Ethiopia's Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas while praying for peace amidst ongoing conflicts. Celebrated following the Julian calendar, the event calls for reconciliation amid ethnic strife and ...

Religious leaders in Ethiopia have called upon the Christian community to observe the birth of Jesus Christ with a spirit of ...

It is a tactic commonly used in the country - which has a population of 115 million - though rarely in the capital, Addis Ababa ... say the patriarch, Abune Mathias, has not been on good terms ...

On Thursday, believers gathered in a large public plaza in Addis Ababa for rituals ... BBC Michele Spatari / AFP During the celebration Abune Mathias, the patriarch of Ethiopia's Orthodox Church ...

The US needs to keep troops deployed in Syria to prevent the Daesh group (also known as ISIS) from reconstituting as a major threat following the ouster of Bashar Assad’s government, Defense Secretary ...