Imagine stepping into a church that looks fully Orthodox—icons, incense, chanting, bearded priests—but it's actually Catholic ...

In the U.S. capital, hundreds of Ethiopians dressed in traditional white shawls chant in the ancient liturgical language of one of the oldest ...

a spiritual home for thousands of Ethiopian Orthodox Christians preserving centuries-old traditions. Worshippers, draped in traditional white netela shawls, bow in reverence and fill the church with ...

“The Ethiopian Orthodox Church has so many beautiful rituals ... Bililigne said. The incense from the censer, he said, represents the Virgin Mary, and the coal that burns it, the divinity ...

“The Ethiopian Orthodox Church has so many beautiful rituals ... Bililigne said. The incense from the censer, he said, represents the Virgin Mary, and the coal that burns it, the divinity ...

A kesis or priest, waves a censer burning incense as he walks through rows of congregants at Re'ese Adbarat Debre Selam Kidist Mariam Church, an Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo church, in Washington ...