Several people dressed as Santa Claus and elves were recently seen outside the Ethiopian Airlines office in the DC area. However, instead of carrying gifts or holiday cheer, they dumped coal on ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia’s Orthodox Christians are celebrating Christmas with prayers for peace in the Horn of Africa nation that has faced persistent conflict in recent years.

When Band Aid recorded a single to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia, the supergroup famously sang: "Do they know it's Christmas time at all?" The discovery confirms that Christianity ...

Let's take a look at how four communities choose to mark Christmas. In Ethiopia, Christmas is known as Ganna/Gena or Ledet and is celebrated on 7 January. Thousands of pilgrims travel to the town ...

Ethiopia also celebrates the New Year on September 11 (or September 12 in a leap year), and Christmas falls on January 7, like in other Orthodox Christian traditions. This unique system means that ...

In the summer of 1973, Sally traveled to Ethiopia on holiday. She never came back. MORE: Watch an interview with director Tamara Dawit and her aunt, Menbie, Sally's sister. In a few short months ...