Ethiopia’s 3,000-year history unfolds in less than 10 minutes, from its ancient beginnings to modern times. The kingdom of ...

As home to one of the world’s oldest Christian cultures, Ethi­opia preserves many practices and beliefs dating back to ancient times. But far from being a museum relic, Ethiopian Christianity is a ...

Throughout Ethiopia, Orthodox Christian churches can be found in the middle of thick clusters of trees. Even where there are no other trees around, a dense, leafy grove has come to indicate the ...

The Church has nearly 45 million followers, most of whom live in Ethiopia. An Ethiopian Orthodox Christian female pilgrim at a mass before the annual festival of Timkat in Lalibela, Ethiopia.

The life of Walatta Petros.The problem, though, was that the Ethiopian church was intimately allied to a mighty Christian state, which had the power to regulate or suppress European intruders if ...

Ethiopian Christians practiced elements of the faith absent in Roman Catholicism, elements Protestants would later adopt: communion in both kind, vernacular Scriptures, and married clergy.

More than 60 rare icons and artifacts, mostly loaned from a German collector, reveal that unique fusion of Christian traditions with Ethiopian culture at the Museum of Russian Icons.

The latest crackdown on Christianity in the ultra-fundamental Islamic country comes on the heels of a brutal 2011/2012 incarceration and torture of 36 Ethiopian Christians, and drew a sharp rebuke ...

Most intriguing, Axum might be the resting place of the not-so-lost Ark of the Covenant, one of the holiest relics of Christianity (and Hollywood). During my time in Ethiopia, it seemed like a ...

Ethiopian Christians practiced elements of the faith absent in Roman Catholicism, elements Protestants would later adopt: both bread and wine at Communion, vernacular Scriptures and married clergy.

In November, the government of Ethiopia accused the TPLF of destroying an airport in the holy city of Axum, where Ethiopian Christians believe the Ark of the Covenant is stored.

In the mid-4th century, Ethiopia became only the second nation in the world, after Armenia, to adopt Christianity as the state religion. Loosely chronological sections chart the subsequent ...