In the second century, the Church began to use the time between Ash Wednesday and Holy Saturday to teach and prepare converts to the Christian faith for baptism. These new believers were baptized ...

Many others have reacted on social media, citing biblical parallels to Sarah, who gave birth to Isaac at the age of 90. Dimtse Woyane posted a video from the child’s baptism, which showed a festive ...

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Awra Amba, Ethiopia – Aregash Nuru pointed at the rolling green landscape in Ethiopia’s central Amhara region. “We used to watch sunset from the hills,” she said with a sigh.

The U.S. Secret Service shot an armed Indiana man near the White House early Sunday morning, officials said. The name of the man, his Hoosier State hometown and his condition were not immediately ...

Drinda Ann Hansen passed away peacefully in her home surrounded by her family on March 4, 2025, at the age of 79. She was born on Jan. 11, 1946, in Pocatello, Idaho, to William Dean Daily and ...

For years, Merga dreamed of opening a restaurant. Food is in her blood. As a child growing up in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, she watched her mother come home from a taxing office job to labor over doro wat ...

More than two years after a cessation of hostilities ended a brutal civil war, Ethiopia’s Tigray region should be well along the road to recovery. Instead, its ruling Tigray People’s Liberation Front ...

SERVICES: The following area churches offer Ash Wednesday services March 5: New Baptist, 6:30 p.m.; St. Paul Lutheran, noon, chapel, and 7 p.m., sanctuary with ...

Bracing himself against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other." In addition to Judges, other biblical mentions of Gaza are in Joshua, Jeremiah and Amos, as well as the New ...