NAIROBI, Kenya — The Catholic Eparchy of Adigrat in Ethiopia has reiterated its urgent calls for dialogue and unhindered humanitarian access in Tigray, as the U.N. highlighted an opportunity for a ...

The Monastery of Abunä Abraham in Ger'alta, eastern Tigray, Ethiopia. Hagos Abrha Abay Ger‘alta is a principally mountainous zone located in a sandstone escarpment in south-central Tigray. It is in ...

Fears of renewed violence are linked to the split in the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) — the party that fought against Ethiopia’s federal army during the two-year war and runs Tigray’s ...

Some 14 months into the brutal conflict between separatists and government forces in Ethiopia's Tigray region, priests and Catholic relief workers are growing ever more vocal in their concern for the ...

Two sisters of the Daughters of Charity in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, gather for morning prayer in their convent chapel in this 2015 file photo. Catholic bishops in Ethiopia have warned that insecurity is ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in his first public comments on the war in the country’s Tigray region is sharply criticizing Ethiopia’s actions, saying he believes ...

Religious and civil society leaders in Ethiopia’s Tigray region have issued an urgent appeal for peace as sporadic clashes continue in parts of the northern region, raising fears of a renewed ...

Tigray’s al-Nejashi Mosque, one of Africa’s oldest Islamic sites, was damaged in December 2020. Photo by Eduardo Soteras/AFP via Getty Images The human carnage and heritage destruction in Ethiopia’s ...

VATICAN CITY — “Tigray is really in hell,” said a Catholic priest from the war-ravaged northern region of Ethiopia. “Never before has a government denied medicine to millions of its own people, closed ...

A continuing siege of Tigray by Ethiopian government forces is frustrating church efforts to deliver humanitarian aid to millions of people in need in the troubled northern region of the East Africa ...

Catholic bishops in Ethiopia warned that insecurity is shutting down churches and forcing more priests and nuns to flee, as consequences of the war in the northern province of Tigray are felt across ...