In 2011, Belcher spent a year in Ethiopia on a Fulbright fellowship researching ancient manuscripts illuminating the lives of women now regarded as saints in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, which dates ...

For much of the following 1,600 years, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church – known as Tewahdo ... While saints and Ethiopians, who are almost always depicted as light-skinned, ...

Although there are Ethiopian Orthodox churches in Dallas, Austin and most major American cities, when Genanaw arrived in Houston 12 years ago, there was no church here.

These saints translated sacred text into the Ethiopian language Ge`ez and introduced the people to Christianity and monastic life. Ethiopia is now considered the center of Christianity in Africa.

Pope Francis with His Holiness Pope Abuna Mathias I, patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, on Feb. 29. Image ID: 56d47af66a743 (photo: L'Osservatore Romano) CNA/EWTN NEWS News March ...

There is a timeless integrity to the Orthodox Christian art of Ethiopia, as its iconic images stare us down through the %J centuries. Make eye contact with them and it’s hard to look away. Al… ...

Saint Michael is one of the major saints in Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, a centuries-old faith at the heart of an ancient and proud civilisation that has evolved into Africa's second-most ...

APTOPIX Ethiopian Church Washington DC Church leaders chant during the hours-long service in the Ge'ez language at Re'ese Adbarat Debre Selam Kidist Mariam Church, an Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo ...

At an Ethiopian cathedral in Northeast Washington, hundreds of parishioners dressed in white chanted to a rhythmic drum beat and celebrated Orthodox Christmas.