NAIROBI, Kenya— Abune Antonios, a confined Eritrean Orthodox Church Patriarch and the longest-serving prisoner of conscience in the Horn of Africa, died on Feb. 9 at the age of 94. He was still ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) – For the last two decades, Eritrean authorities have persecuted religious groups, frequently arresting church leaders and detaining them in small shipping container prisons ...

The government doesn’t care. It has nothing to lose,” said an Eritrean church source who could not be named for security reasons.

When my dad immigrated to Seattle from Eritrea, the Eritrean Catholic church became his new community. He goes to mass every Sunday. There, he sings in Tigrinya, his native tongue, and prays to God.

Jamie Grumet, who was raised in the Armenian church, brought her husband, Brian, and their two sons to Timket. She said she had come to see the Ethiopian incarnation of Orthodox Christianity ...

Spend Sunday mornings worshipping at Holy Trinity Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church in Hartwell. It’s the anti-megachurch. Here, there is no band, the prayers are hundreds of years old ...

ADDIS ABABA, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Thousands of Ethiopian Orthodox followers gathered in the capital Addis Ababa on Friday and Saturday to celebrate Epiphany, also called Timket, a religious festival ...

"The sacred right of every believer to go to church to pray without being persecuted by the military or police in their country is a fundamental right of every human being," said the priest. For 20 ...