Muslims constitute roughly a third of the population. The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church began in 330 AD, when the kingdom of Axum became the second state after Armenia to adopt Christianity.

The Ethiopian calendar, based on calculations from the Coptic Church, starts in 7 BC, unlike the Gregorian calendar introduced by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582, which is based on calculations by ...

The congregants who filed into St. Mary Coptic Orthodox Church in South St. Paul on Tuesday morning greeted Fathers Youannes Tawfik and Jacob Zaki in the same reverent way: a kiss of the black cros… ...