In the nearly 21 years since two Orthodox priests were arbitrarily imprisoned in Eritrea, their wives have died. Neither the Rev. Gebremedhin Gebregiorgis nor Dr. Futsum Gebrenegus have been charged ...

NAIROBI, Kenya— Abune Antonios, a confined Eritrean Orthodox Church Patriarch and the longest-serving prisoner of conscience in the Horn of Africa, died on Feb. 9 at the age of 94. He was still ...

A former head of Eritrea's Orthodox Church, who had been under house arrest for 16 years, has died, church officials have told the BBC. Abune Antonio, who had long been a critic of the Eritrean ...

CINCINNATI -- Tired of your local megachurch’s efforts to make Sunday morning worship services more accessible to modern ears, with their rock music, their videos, their avoidance of ritual and their ...

In an unprecedented move, Eritrean bishops in the Orthodox church have expelled their former patriarch, Abune Antonios. Antonios, who was the head of the church until 2006, was accused of heresy in a ...

Asmara — His Reverend Abune Baslios, Administrator of the Office of the Patriarch of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church, has been elected as the 6th Patriarch of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church ...