Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Religion is highly present in Ethiopia. It’s visible in churches and mosques, in clothing, and in public rituals. The country’s ...

After remaining under the international media’s radar for more than a year, attacks against churches in one of the world’s oldest Christian civilizations have prompted Pope Francis to speak out. “I am ...

In the 4th century A.D., Ethiopia became the world’s second Christian nation, preceded only by Armenia. Though its historicity is questionable, the 14th-century Kebra Nagast tied Prince Ermias Sahle ...

For hundreds of Ethiopian immigrants, a southeast Houston church is more than a place to worship God. Debre Selam Medhanealem Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo Church is a touch of a home half a world away, ...

The historic relationship between Christianity and imperialism naturally causes grave dilemmas for modern believers. But on at least one celebrated occasion, it was actually a great Christian army ...

In earlier essays we traced how European Christianity bent under the weight of profit, reshaping theology to justify slavery. We saw how some Europeans’ consciences, as Paul describes in Romans 2:15, ...

Christianity arrived in Ethiopia in the fourth century AD and its presence is still strongly felt in the astonishing architecture of the rock churches, in paintings and in ancient rituals that connect ...