BBC:Pictures from Ethiopia’s Orthodox Christian festival marking the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan are in this week’s
And replicas of the Ark of the Covenant, said to contain the 10 commandments, are also paraded through Gondar’s streets. Here a deacon carries a cross on Wednesday.
The next day, worshippers jump into the Fasilides Bath – the waters of which are blessed by a priest as part of a ceremony…
It is an Orthodox Christian festival marking the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan…
On Wednesday, women pose for a selfie during the annual Timkat epiphany celebration in the Ethiopian city of Gondar…