Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox Church and celebrate Easter accordingly, ...

Built during the reign of King Gebre Mesqel Lalibela, the Ethiopian Orthodox church has been described as the eighth wonder of the world. It is surrounded by a very narrow man-made canyon while ...

while Cambridge’s library holds medieval bibles created for the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, along with other holy books. Similar Christian manuscripts are held in Oxford’s Bodleian Library.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Archbishop Anastasios Yanoulatos, head of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania, leads the Easter ...

in partnership with the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Regarding the Royal Collection’s ownership of religious manuscripts, Abebaw Ayalew Gella, the director general of the heritage authority ...

The collective duty should extend beyond providing immediate relief. It should also encourage the Ethiopian government to resolve its various internal conflicts through peaceful dialogue.

Further violence is increasingly likely, says Mariam Barghouti, a Palestinian writer and journalist based in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. “We’re seeing Israel wage a war that very much ...

Rabbi Ari Berman delivering the benediction at Trump's 2025 Inauguration President Donald Trump once again turned to the Orthodox community to give a benediction on behalf of American Jewry at his ...

Ethiopian Epiphany, a UNESCO-inscribed intangible cultural heritage, is a significant tradition of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. The festival is warmly celebrated nationwide from January 18 to 19 ...

The Ethiopian Disaster Risk Management Council is relocating around 60,000 residents in the two regions to temporary shelters because of the risk of further earthquakes. The earthquakes have also ...

On Sunday, January 19, the spirit of celebration filled the air as over 45 South African churches, alongside communities worldwide, commemorated Timkat, the Ethiopian Orthodox celebration of the ...