NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — Abune Antonios, a confined Eritrean Orthodox Church Patriarch and the longest-serving prisoner of conscience in the Horn of Africa, died on Feb. 9 at the age of 94. He was still ...

(RNS) — Religious liberty and human rights experts, including a member of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, are calling for the release of an 80-year-old Jehovah’s Witness who ...

ASMARA, July 10 (Reuters) - Eritrea has accused "fringe" religious groups of sowing dissent in the Red Sea state and defended its right to arrest members who assemble illegally. In an interview posted ...

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 community of Los ...