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 ...

The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church will be hosting the Epiphany or ‘Timket’ service with Pre-Anaphora and Covenant Prayers. A spokesperson said, “We will be celebrating the Epiphany or ‘Timket’ of ...

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, ...

Bermuda’s Ethiopian Orthodox Church have invited the public to their Timket Service on Sunday [Jan 19] at 8:00am. Timket [Ethiopian for Epiphany] commemorates Christ’s baptism in the River Jordan. The ...

Gondar, Ethiopia (CNN)-- France has Lourdes, India has the Ganges. Ethiopia, meanwhile, has Gondar. Situated about 450 miles north of Addis Ababa, encapsulated by hills and tall trees, and dotted with ...

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 ...

Timket (The Amharic word for immersion or Epiphany) is one of the grand outdoor religious festivals celebrated among the Ethiopian Orthodox Christians on the 19 of January (or the 20 of January once ...