Abune Mathias conveyed a message to the faithful in connection with Lent, which begins Monday, 24 February, 2025, yestrday. During the fasting season, apart from abstaining from food and drinks, the ...

His Holiness Abune Mathias I, Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOTC), has expressed concern over growing divisions among senior leaders of the Tigray People's Liberation Front ...

The patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Abune Mathias, in his televised Christmas Eve message called for reconciliation and peace in a nation where conflict has been often fueled by ethnic ...

Ethiopia’s Orthodox Christians are celebrating Christmas with prayers for peace in the Horn of Africa nation that has faced persistent conflict in recent years.

"The crime was not committed by foreign forces but by our own people, and this makes it very painful," Patriarch Abune Mathias of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church said during the ceremony for army ...

Archbishop Abune Mathias, patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, offered his condolences to the families affected by the landslide. In a July 24 statement, the patriarch noted that while ...

The initiative of the Abune follows in the footsteps of the Ethiopian government mediation efforts to end the secession war in Northern Somalia. ”The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church aims to urge ...

The Church, headed by Patriarch Abune Mathias for a decade, has declared the breakaway synod illegal and excommunicated the bishops involved. It has also accused the government of Prime Minister Abiy ...

Patriarch Abune Mathias, himself a native of Tigray, strongly criticised the government in May 2021, accusing it of wanting to “destroy Tigray” and deploring the damage caused to the region’s famous ...