This dead language remains the liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and its alpha syllabic system – where the characters represent syllables – is still used to write Ethiopia ...
The Ethiopian Orthodox Church dates the top-down Christianization of Aksum circa 330 AD with King Ezana’s conversion to the monotheistic religion, under the influence of bishop Frumentius. Although ...
The exiled patriarch of Ethiopia's powerful Orthodox Church, Bishop Merkorios, has returned home to the capital, Addis Ababa, after 27 years. Ethiopia's reformist Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, met ...