These Seven Stunning Towers Memorialize Lost Black Lives With Mirrors, Light and Ethiopian Cross Designs At the National Museum of African Art, a Washington, D.C. artist’s work illuminates a ...

Ethiopia - which follows its own ancient Coptic calendar - has just celebrated the start of the new millennium. And the head of the Ethiopian Church has invited his colleagues to take part in a ...

Ornate priests, carrying silver Coptic crosses, dance with their followers around the fires singing and chanting, while carrying flaming torches. Empress Helena. The festivities, which are capped by ...

The Egyptian Coptic Church, Patriarch Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark was accorded a warm welcome by His Holiness Abune Mathias, Patriarch of the Ethiopian ...

Millions of Ethiopian Orthodox church members on Wednesday celebrated the Demera, the eve of the discovery of the cross on which Jesus Christ is believed to have been crucified. Celebrations began in ...

For Egypt’s embattled Coptic Christian minority, tattoos aren’t a fashion statement but rather an indelible, and defiant, mark of their faith. In effect, the small black cross tattoo that ...

Tattoo artist in Cairo Karin El Minawi, Cairo / glb 06/19/2015 June 19, 2015. As a testament to their faith, Egypt's Coptic Christians traditionally have a cross tattoo on their right wrist.