The Ethiopian Orthodox Church dates the top-down Christianization of ... the significant royal shift from a polytheistic worldview to Christianity is clearly revealed by inscriptions (as discussed in ...

The Ethiopian branch of Christianity first ... you are no longer an Orthodox Christian. In the days of Emperor Haile Selassie you couldn't speak against the tradition because it would be ...

Ethiopian Orthodox Christian priests light on incense in Fasilides Bath during the celebration of Timkat, the Ethiopian Epiphany, in the city of Gondar. Source: Getty የክርስትና እምነ ...

When Menelik found out he agreed to keep it, believing it to be God's will that it stay in Ethiopia - and for the country's Orthodox Christians it remains sacred and something they are still ...

It marks the discovery of the cross Jesus was crucified on, according to Ethiopian Orthodox Christian tradition. On Thursday, believers gathered in a large public plaza in Addis Ababa for rituals ...

At noon on Sundays in Worthington, Minnesota, an overflow crowd is still swaying to the Guatemalan band at Spanish-language Catholic Mass, Ethiopian Orthodox Christians are wrapping up their ...

The emperor’s relations with the official Ethiopian Orthodox Church are interpreted variously, but most feel he has drawn church-state distinctions, and non-Orthodox Christians have recently ...

Events that occurred this week in Christian history include Bob Marley joining the Orthodox Church, the death of Billy Sunday ...