Worshippers fill St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Kwethluk, Alaska, on June 19, 2025, for the canonization ceremony of St. Olga, the first female Orthodox saint in North America.

Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims, with their traditionally embroidered-trimmed white gowns, also took part in the procession, as in 2025 the festivals of all the Orthodox and Catholic churches converge.

Built during the reign of King Gebre Mesqel Lalibela, the Ethiopian Orthodox church has been described as the eighth wonder of the world.

‘You can’t learn if you’re hungry – thank god for Band Aid’ – how Ethiopian schoolkids are thriving thanks to charity It’s difficult to imagine the parallel moral universe where some ...

A TikTok video that resurfaced on Facebook recently claimed in a headline that the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church had banned songs about Jesus. The clip used footage of former church singer ...

Nationalism sparked by simmering ethnic strife – rooted in conflict between disparate ethnic groups and triggered by language, influence and resources – is tearing Ethiopia’s Orthodox Church apart.

In 2018, the Center for Digital Humanities provided support for a two-year collaboration, including data preparation and an outreach program to engage the Ethiopian Orthodox community. The project was ...

While most of Gaza’s Christians belong to the Greek Orthodox faith, smaller numbers worship at the Catholic Holy Family Church and the Gaza Baptist Church.

A bomb struck the complex of the historic Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza on Oct. 19, 2023, killing more than a dozen of the hundreds of Christians and Muslims taking shelter inside and ...