With backing from Latter-day Saint leaders and local donors, a once-crowded congregation opens a church built on interfaith ...

Synagogues and Hebrew schools in the United States looking to help their communities celebrate Sigd, an Ethiopian Jewish holiday, have gotten a helping hand this year, thanks to Sigal Kanotopsky.

Religion is highly present in Ethiopia. It’s visible in churches and mosques, in clothing, and in public rituals. The country’s main religious communities are Orthodox Christians, Muslims and ...

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A kesis or priest, waves a censer burning incense as he walks through rows of congregants at Re'ese Adbarat Debre Selam Kidist Mariam Church, an Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo church, in Washington ...

“Ethiopia’s Interreligious consistence is model. We have seen this to major religions in the continent. The first Muslim community were saved and protected as refugees in Ethiopia.

For years, the 50th day after Yom Kippur has been marked by the pilgrimage of hundreds of Ethiopian Jews dressed in white and carrying colorful umbrellas to Jerusalem to celebrate Sigd.

The highlands of northern Ethiopia are renowned for its magnificent early Christian churches carved out of volcanic rock, such as the Tomb of Adam, in Lalibela.

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Lalibela, the holy site visited by 200,000 Ethiopian Christians on an annual pilgrimage 13:29. This is an updated version of a story first published on Dec. 1, 2019.

A worshipper holds a prayer staff during a service at Re’ese Adbarat Debre Selam Kidist Mariam Church, an Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo church, in Washington, D.C., Saturday, April 5, 2025.