The world's hardest to reach church is located in Ethiopia. It is called Abuna Yemata Guh,  and worshippers have to climb a ...

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When the Catholic Church amended its calculation in 500 AD, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church did not. So the new year falls on 11 September in the Western calendar, or 12 September in leap years ...

East African nation was one of the first to adopt Christianity, but celebrates with other Orthodox Christian churches on 7 ...

Ethiopia celebrates its New Year, Enkutatash, which is based on the Ethiopian Orthodox calendar. ・The Ethiopian calendar is ...

The youngster — who has a cross of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church dangling from her neck — added: “My favourite subject is English. I want to be a teacher when I grow up.” The queue of ...

Armed with a bamboo ink pen and a steady hand, Ethiopian Orthodox priest Zelalem Mola carefully copies text in the ancient Ge’ez language from a religious book onto a goatskin parchment.

The aim of this study is to describe the traditional Biblical and patristic Amharic commentary material of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, and to present in translation a sufficient sample of the ...

One of Africa's most alluring destinations allows visitors to sip coffee in the beverage's homeland, take in scenic mountain ...

Celebrations have been taking place in Ethiopia's historic holy city of Gondar for the Ethiopian Orthodox Christian festival of Timket. The celebration, which marks the baptism of Jesus in the ...