The end of two decades of tension between the Coptic Orthodoxy and the Ethiopian Orthodox churches: ““You have made history”. This is how a Coptic Metropolitan described the reconciliation brought ...

Emperor Haile Selassie rocked the Coptic Christian Church to its 1800-year-old foundations. To Cairo and the Coptic pope, Patriarch Markarius III, the gentle Negus sent a rough message: the next Abuna ...

Gilad Lotan was in Israel recently and takes us to the heart of a 30-year-old dispute between the Ethiopian and Coptic churches over the the ownership of Dir Sultan, a structure found on the rooftop ...

The cross, once carried in conquest, has been reclaimed as a symbol of solidarity. It no longer crowns emperors; it comforts the crucified. From chains to church, from plantation to pulpit, the faith ...

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Africa’s youngest head of state heals the wounds of one of its oldest churches. Ending 27 years of schism, Ethiopian Orthodox Christians in their homeland and in America reunited the two feuding ...

HERMITAGE - Staunton residents may have noticed a large copper-type steeple on Hermitage Road in recent months. The ornate building will house the new St. Mary and St. John the Baptist Coptic Orthodox ...

A large acrylic painting of an Ethiopian church elder reading to a young boy hangs on one wall in the lobby of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. On the floor on the other side of the gallery is a ...