At the National Museum of African Art, a Washington, D.C. artist’s work illuminates a gallery room and honors 54 people who ...

Months later, in December 2024, Ethiopian President Taye Atskeselassie (Amb ... “This place is like a church—one you enter without needing to cross yourself,” he said. “This is not just another ...

Please scroll down to end of page for previous years' dates. Cyprus has a population of about 1.1 million, nearly 82 percent of whom follow the Greek Orthodox Church and celebrate Easter accordingly, ...

The history of Ethiopian Christianity dates ... processional crosses and holy vessels. These buildings may thus serve as the physical and emotional repositories of the memories, history, art, and ...

Jonas Karlsonn to give paper at conference on music in Africa on "Reorganisation and Recodification: The Developments of Ethiopian Orthodox Antiphonaries during ... organized by the Slade School of ...

Addis Abeba — The Ethiopian Red Cross Society inaugurated the country's first humanitarian school on 27 January, 2025, in a ceremony held at the Ethiopian Skylight Hotel in Addis Abeba.

The latest round of iconography is being installed at St. Matthew Orthodox Church in Green Bay. Officials say the tradition combines history, art and religion. "Everything has a meaning ...

AFP photographer Eric Schwab recorded the horrors of the Holocaust — the crematoria, the piles of skeletal bodies and emaciated faces — as he went from one Nazi extermination camp to the next ...

The same museum also holds several other garments that came from Ethiopian royalty, while Cambridge’s library holds medieval bibles created for the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, along with other ...

JTA — Paul Kling was 14 when he played violin for a newly written opera, surrounded by sickness and death, in the Nazi concentration camp of Theresienstadt. He was rehearsing his part in “Der ...