“The Ethiopian Orthodox Church has so many beautiful rituals ... Bililigne said. The incense from the censer, he said, represents the Virgin Mary, and the coal that burns it, the divinity ...

“The Ethiopian Orthodox Church has so many beautiful rituals and services ... they believe Jesus was wrapped in at birth and crucifixion, Bililigne said. The incense from the censer, he said, ...

Worshippers, draped in traditional white netela shawls, bow in reverence and fill the church with prayers and incense smoke ... The Ethiopian Orthodox Church in D.C. serves not just as a place ...

Imagine walking into a church, where spectacular icons stare down from the walls, priests with long beards swing incense censers, and the chanting has that familiar Byzantine note as everything looks ...

Imagine walking into a church, where spectacular icons stare down from the walls, priests with long beards swing incense censers, and the chanting has that familiar Byzantine note as everything looks ...

Congregants prostrate themselves in reverence to God and bow when a priest walks among them swinging a censer burning incense.

“The Ethiopian Orthodox Church has so many beautiful rituals ... Bililigne said. The incense from the censer, he said, represents the Virgin Mary, and the coal that burns it, the divinity ...

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 ...