After more than 20 years in the U.S., an Eritrean mother and nurse tried to self-deport to Canada. She found herself in a Texas detention center instead. Rahel Negassi, an Eritrean asylum seeker who ...

“In the whole history of the Orthodox Church in America, this has never been seen,” a priest said about the surge of young men drawn to the demanding practice of Christianity. “The Orthodox Church is ...

Ethiopia's dream of a seaside port is fueling fears of war in the Horn of Africa. Some even fear an imminent Ethiopian invasion of neighboring Eritrea. https://p.dw ...

Prosecutors say Tewelde Goitom ran an operation to bring East African migrants to Europe under horrific conditions, demanding huge sums of money from their relatives. A Dutch court opened a trial on ...

When Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi welcomed Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki to Cairo this week, the official agenda read like a checklist of regional priorities; the Horn of Africa, ...

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Catholic bishops in Ethiopia expressed deep sorrow and solidarity after the collapse of wooden scaffolding in an Ethiopian Orthodox church in the north of the country that left at least 36 people dead ...

In the nearly 21 years since two Orthodox priests were arbitrarily imprisoned in Eritrea, their wives have died. Neither the Rev. Gebremedhin Gebregiorgis nor Dr. Futsum Gebrenegus have been charged ...

For nine years, Father Fisehatision of the St. Mary Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church of Utah said he would cry every Sunday because of the conditions in which he and his fellow churchgoers had to ...

Hair braiding tells a story. Of womanhood. Of age. Of what it means to be Habesha and find your way back to rituals that almost disappeared. For Brehan, a 37-year-old bride-to-be in Dallas with both ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In the U.S. capital, hundreds of Ethiopians dressed in traditional white shawls chant in the ancient liturgical language of one of the oldest branches of Christianity. During ...