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People celebrate Timket, the annual Ethiopian epiphany festival, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Jan. 19, 2021. The Ethiopian epiphany, which is largely considered as one of Ethiopia's highly rated public ...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Thousands of Ethiopian Orthodox followers gathered in the capital Addis Ababa on Friday and Saturday to celebrate Epiphany, also called Timket, a religious festival ...

Followers of the Ethiopian Orthodox faith on Friday celebrated Timket -- also called the Epiphany -- a holiday commemorating Jesus’ baptism in the Jordan River. To mark the day, tents called Tabots ...

Christians started on Sunday celebrating the Ethiopian Orthodox Epiphany, a three-day occasion that marks the baptism of Jesus Christ in the Jordan River. Hundreds of thousands of people streamed onto ...

Addis Abeba — Two people were killed and several others were injured in a stand-off between security forces and participants of Timket festival in Burayu town in the Oromia special zone surrounding ...

Addis Ababa — Ethiopian joint Security and Intelligence task force has announced Saturday that it has detained more than 371 suspected members of "Fano and Shene" groups as well as members of ...

ADDIS ABABA, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- Ethiopian Orthodox Christians across the country on Monday marked the three-day Ethiopian epiphany, the baptism of Jesus Christ, with various assortments of unique and ...

Huddled beneath a large white tent, hundreds of people sang together in the early morning darkness. For hours, they repeated a single word: Hallelujah. They were gathered last Sunday to mark Timket, ...

In Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, thousands of worshippers marched through the streets on Friday, the eve of the festival, to the Jan Meda sports grounds. Image source, AFP Each church took its ...