"How can you celebrate when many people are dying?" said a tuktuk driver, who wished to remain anonymous. Up to 250,000 people have taken part in previous celebrations of Timkat, as epiphany is known ...

Barely a thousand worshippers took part in the procession of the city’s 44 churches that sees eight sacred arches carried to the Fasiladas baths – Copyright NASA ...

Gondar (Ethiopia) (AFP) – Festivities for the Orthodox Christian celebration of epiphany have been muted this year in Gondar, in the northwest Ethiopian region of Amhara where conflict has raged for ...