Ethiopia was cut off for centuries from the wider Christian world by the Islamic ... where it has stayed ever since as a symbol of God's blessing. I travel to Aksum, hoping to see the Ark for ...

But that doesn’t make reforesting a nation—covering all of Ethiopia with the arboreal symbol of Canaan’s blessing—any less of a Christian act. Amir Aman Kiyaro is a writer working in ...

However, it corresponded to other videos released by the Islamic State group and bore the symbol of its al-Furqan ... and beheaded groups of captive Ethiopian Christians. Ethiopia on Monday ...

The symbolism of his defiance ... joined by their liberal Christian allies, who staged one of the largest demonstrations preceding the Ethiopian Revolution of 1974. The ongoing Muslim movement ...

An Orthodox priest at Nakuto Lab Rock Church, outside Lalibela, Ethiopia. About three-quarters ... Orthodox Ethiopians are more likely than Orthodox Christians in Central and Eastern Europe to wear ...

Christian figures and symbols -- including Jesus Christ himself ... in ways that resemble the local community. For example, Ethiopia depicts Jesus as black dating back 1,500 years and images ...

It is an annual religious holiday celebrated among the Ethiopian Orthodox Christians to commemorate ... The premier said Demera is our symbol of coming together to realize the height of our ...