WASHINGTON – 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 hourslong ...

“Although scarcely known by Westerners, the Ethiopian church offers one of the most heroic success stories in Christianity,” writes Philip Jenkins in The Next Christendom (Oxford, 2002). Jenkins was ...

For hundreds of Ethiopian immigrants, a southeast Houston church is more than a place to worship God. Debre Selam Medhanealem Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo Church is a touch of a home half a world away, ...

https://doi.org/10.14321/nortafristud.14.1.0043 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.14321/nortafristud.14.1.0043 Copy URL For members of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church ...

OAKLAND — Abune Melketsedek, a former archbishop in Ethiopia who came to Oakland almost three decades ago and became a minister at the Mekane Selam Medhanealem Cathedral, has died. He was 97.

A sea of black and white filled the sanctuary. Men in dark suits and women in floor-length skirts and light scarves stood for hours, their attention focused on the proceedings at the front of the ...