Addis Ababa - More than 100 000 Ethiopian ... where three crosses used during Jesus' crucifixion and identified the holy one by a miracle. The story had it that St Helena gave pieces of the cross to ...

Armed with umbrellas, thousands of Orthodox ... (2017 in the Ethiopian calendar): “Meskel falls on a Friday, the day we fast each week to remember Christ’s suffering on the cross.

Head of the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church Pope ... of the Holy Family and a hand-held cross made in the Coptic style to the members of the Ethiopian church delegation.

“Young Orthodox ... Ethiopia’s Meskel festival celebrates the discovery of the ‘True Cross’ On November 17, Tsegaye was among 2,000 young members of the Ethiopian Generation Jandereba ...

Ethiopian Orthodox Church followers have celebrated Demera, an annual bonfire lighting ceremony on the eve of the Meskel festival- the finding of the true cross up on which Jesus was crucified on ...

The set design (by Tsedaye Makonnen, Adrienne Gaither, and Kathryn Kawecki) shifts to include latticework evoking the traditional meskel (cross) designs of the ancient Ethiopian Orthodox Church, and a ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) – The influential Ethiopian Orthodox Church said late on Wednesday it had reached an agreement with a breakaway synod from the Oromiya region following deadly violence that ...

“The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, Armenian Apostolic Church of Etchmiadzin, Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church were not involved in the joint ...

“Neither the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church, the Armenian Apostolic Church of Etchmiadzin, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, nor the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church were involved in ...

KOTTAYAM: In a major development in the efforts to resolve the disputes between Jacobite and Orthodox groups within the Malankara Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches have stepped forward to ...