WASHINGTON – Hundreds of Ethiopian immigrants gathered at a church here recently to mourn Archbishop Abuna Yesehaq Mandefro, who spent decades launching congregations throughout the United States and ...

A kesis or priest, waves a censer burning incense as he walks through rows of congregants at Re'ese Adbarat Debre Selam Kidist Mariam Church, an Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo church, in Washington, D.C.