A tragic, quiet event is taking place in the Tigray area of northern Ethiopia, threatening the Irob Catholic minority’s cultural and religious identity. With a long and storied past, the Irob people — ...

Cardinal Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, the head of the Ethiopian Catholic Church, was prohibited from leaving the Asmara airport Saturday. The move comes after tensions between the Church and ...

On 19 th December 2023, the Ethiopian Catholic Church has launched her Ten-Year Plan which was under preparation since July 2022 until September 2023. The strategic plan titled: Ethiopian Catholic ...

In a statement shared on July 13 following its 58th plenary assembly, members of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Ethiopia (CBCE) said the current situation in Ethiopia calls “more than ever” for a ...

Some 14 months into the brutal conflict between separatists and government forces in Ethiopia's Tigray region, priests and Catholic relief workers are growing ever more vocal in their concern for the ...

Cardinal Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel of Addis Ababa tells reporters that for most youth on the continent, it’s not modern technology that’s the challenge, it’s simply “a question of survival.” ...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerk sign the peace declaration July 9 in Asmara, Eritrea. Ethiopian Catholic Cardinal Berhaneyesus Souraphiel has commended the two ...

Armed members of Amhara region militias ride on their truck in Sanja, Ethiopia, near a border with Tigray Nov. 9, 2020, as they head to face the Tigray People’s Liberation Front. (Credit: Tiksa Negeri ...

Adigrat (Agenzia Fides) - "Like all Tigrayans, the Catholic Church has been seriously affected by this genocidal war waged against us by the local army and by foreign armies. Physical, psychological ...

Semria Abdujelile, 9, sits at her family's home in a rural area of Ethiopia's Oromia region Feb. 9, 2019. The church in Ethiopia is leading peace and reconciliation efforts and also working to help ...

Cardinal Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel: ‘True peace comes from God and from the heart of each one of us dedicated to peace.’ Then-Archbishop Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, shown departing the ...

Women sit and breastfeed their children as Filippo Grandi, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, visits Umm Rakouba refugee camp sheltering people who fled the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region in ...