Police have ordered the temporary closure of four Eritrean churches in Tel Aviv due to security concerns, a Friday report said, after intense clashes last week between supporters of the Eritrean ...

ERITREA. Without official explanation, the Eritrean government has ordered the closure of all Christian churches that are not Orthodox, Roman Catholic, or Lutheran.. SIM (formerly Sudan Interior ...

In an unprecedented move, Eritrean bishops in the Orthodox church have expelled their former patriarch, Abune Antonios. Antonios, who was the head of the church until 2006, was accused of heresy ...

In an unprecedented move, Eritrean bishops in the Orthodox church have expelled their former patriarch, Abune Antonios. Antonios, who was the head of the church until 2006, was accused of heresy ...

The crackdown on Eritrea's minority churches followed a government announcement in May 2002 that only its four oldest faiths - Orthodox, Catholic, Lutheran and Islam - would receive official sanction.

In its stay in Eritrea until 29 September, the senior delegation of the World Council of Churches will visit different monasteries and Churches. The World Council of Churches comprises 350 ...

Eritrean authorities have stage-managed the first public appearance in 10 years of Patriarch Abune Antonios, ... Eritrea accused of manipulating Orthodox Church leader's reappearance ...

The Orthodox Church has been in Eritrea for 1600 years The spiritual head of the Eritrean Orthodox Church, Patriarch Antonios, has reportedly been removed from his post by the Eritrean government.

Asmara (Agenzia Fides) - Prudence is the word circulating in the environments of the Eritrean Catholic Church regarding the peace agreement between Ethiopia and Eritrea. "As a Church - says Fr. Mussie ...

The report said that the Eritrean Catholic Church turned up in a big way to receive Cardinal Daoud. "Bishops, superiors of religious congregations, government officers from the Religious Affairs ...

The Eritrean church is one of six Oriental Orthodox churches worldwide, the others being the Coptic, Ethiopian, Syrian, Armenian and Malankara (Indian) churches.