Following the celebration of the Ethiopian New Year, various religious and cultural festivities are marked indoors among families and communities, outdoors with the entire public in mammoth ...

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Every September 11—as the rains retreat and the earth drinks its final drops—the golden petals of the Meskel flower are blooming across Ethiopia. They blanket the highlands in yellow ...

Ethiopian Orthodox Church followers celebrate Demera, an annual bonfire lighting ceremony on the eve of the Meskel festival- the finding of the True Cross, up on which Jesus was crucified.

Ethiopian Orthodox Christian faithfuls marching and singing during a religious festival known as "Meskel". Thousands of Ethiopians were gathered on Addis Ababa's Meskel square Thursday (Sep. 26). The ...

National celebrations of the festival, known as Meskel, traditionally happen in a square by the same name in Addis Ababa. It is one of Ethiopia’s most celebrated religious holidays, marked with ...

Thousands in Ethiopia's capital city defied a downpour to celebrate Meskel, the first big festival of the religious year. It marks the discovery of the cross Jesus was crucified on, according to ...

Thousands of Ethiopians gathered in the capital Thursday to celebrate an annual religious festival distinguished by the ...

National celebrations of the festival, known as Meskel, traditionally happen in a square by the same name in Addis Ababa. It is one of Ethiopia’s most celebrated religious holidays, marked with ...