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There's a mysterious site in Africa that some say was built by angels. Carved deep in a mountainous region of Ethiopia stand 11 churches, each cut from a huge block of rock some 800 years ago.
AMBO, Ethiopia — For years, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church has been one of the few institutions that helped bind this war-riven country together, unifying disparate ethnic groups around ...
In Ethiopia, divisions in the Orthodox church, once a unifying force in a country fraught with conflict, pose a new threat, finds Katharine Houreld .
NAIROBI, Kenya — Widespread tensions caused by a rift within Ethiopia’s Orthodox Christian church have resulted in the suspension of access to social media platforms including TikTok, Facebook ...