ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Millions of Ethiopian Orthodox Christians gathered on Monday at celebrations for Epiphany, locally known as Timkat, which commemorates the baptism of Jesus Christ by John ...

Christians around the world will mark the Epiphany on Jan. 6 with a series of celebrations that go from parades and gift-giving for children to the blessing of water. The holiday is also called the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Christmas holiday is in the rearview mirror for most people. But there is one more occasion on the religious end of the ...

In Batu, a town on the western shore of Lake Dambal in the Oromia Region, thousands of pilgrims entered the lake waters after priests blessed them, symbolically reenacting baptism and embracing the ...