Eritrean authorities are continuing to detain Catholic Bishop Fikremariam Hagos Tsalim of Segheneity, who was arrested at the Asmara International Airport Oct. 15. After the Catholic Church queried ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis appointed an apostolic visitor on Wednesday for Eritrean Catholics in the United States and Canada. The Pope named Father Tesfaldet Tekie Tsada, chaplain of the Eritrean ...

When my dad immigrated to Seattle from Eritrea, the Eritrean Catholic church became his new community. He goes to mass every Sunday. There, he sings in Tigrinya, his native tongue, and prays to God.

Cardinal Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, the head of the Ethiopian Catholic Church, was prohibited from leaving the Asmara airport Saturday. The move comes after tensions between the Church and ...

Catholic bishops in Eritrea have expressed anger at the forced takeover of church-run institutions as the government moved to confiscate or close more schools. The latest seizure targeted early ...

Eritrean authorities are continuing to detain Catholic Bishop Fikremariam Hagos Tsalim of Segheneity, who was arrested at the Asmara International Airport Oct. 15. After the Catholic Church queried ...

Eritrean authorities have freed Catholic Bishop Fikremariam Hagos Tsalim after 75 days in prison. Bishop Tsalim, the 52-year-old bishop of Segheneity, an eparchy in the southern part of Eritrea, had ...

Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki, foreground left is welcomed by Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed upon his arrival at Addis Ababa International Airport, Ethiopia, Saturday, July 14, 2018. (Credit ...

Several Christians were among a group of prisoners recently released in Eritrea, though seven senior church leaders remain in ...

When my dad immigrated to Seattle from Eritrea, the Eritrean Catholic church became his new community. He goes to mass every Sunday. There, he sings in Tigrinya, his native tongue, and prays to God.

Eritreans fleeing their homes are pictured carrying their belongings at the Ethiopian border town of Zalambesa in 1998, the beginning of a two-year border war. (Credit: CNS photo/Reuters.) Listen ...