Timkat, celebrated each year in Ethiopia, marks the feast of Epiphany in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. It commemorates the baptism of Christ in the River Jordan by John the Baptist. Observed around ...

I saw the animal inside my room at the Roha Hotel in Lalibela, Ethiopia. It was not a flash of shadow or the kind of after-image that a tired mind would invent. I saw white fur, a low, sleek length, ...

The Sixth World Conference on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches (WCC) has opened in Wadi El Natrun in Egypt. Running from 24 to 28 October 2025, the theme is: 'Where now for visible ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — King Charles III and Queen Camilla prayed Thursday with Pope Leo XIV in an historic visit to the Vatican to forge closer relations between the Church of England and the Catholic ...

Ethiopia’s plan to convert its dollar-denominated Chinese loans to yuan is a “savvy financial arbitrage play” in the view of some analysts, while others warned that the move could “complicate” ...

Italian anthropologist Giuseppe Tateo speaks to BIRN about the symbolism and ongoing controversies surrounding the imposing National Cathedral about to be consecrated in Bucharest. Yielding slightly ...

The Holy Metropolis of Nea Ionia, Philadelphia, Heraklion, and Chalcedon has launched “ΛΟΓΟΣ – LOGOS,” the first AI-powered tool designed to assist believers in exploring Orthodox faith. Announced on ...

A revised draft of the government’s long-delayed bill to regulate military conscription for the ultra-Orthodox community will be presented to lawmakers next week, with the goal of sending it to the ...

Nairobi — Almost three years after Ethiopia's civil war ended, Tigray remains tense and dangerous for journalists, who have been shot at, detained, raided, and swept up in a local power struggle that ...

THE statement from Gafcon that it had “reset” the Anglican Communion was developed at a meeting in Sydney last week, it has been revealed. In an interview posted on the website of the conservative ...

Upwards of 10,000 haredi Orthodox Jewish men protested on Sunday night outside the Israeli consulate in New York City against the conscription of Orthodox Jews in the Israeli military. The protest, ...