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 ...

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

“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 ...

delivered in that Orthodox church’s native language. The church walls are decorated ornately, glowing with candlelight, and the sanctuary smells of incense. Kengor’s first Divine Liturgy moved him.

Imagine walking into a church, where spectacular icons stare down from the walls, priests with long beards swing incense censers, and the chanting has that familiar Byzantine note as everything looks ...

“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 ...