Rastafarians drum and sing during a special prayer and worship meeting at Menengai forest in Kenya. James Wakibia/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images The week of July 23, 2023, thousands of ...

The film, which is scheduled to premiere on Tuesday, tells the story of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie's family in the aftermath of a 1974 coup. Freestyle Digital Media has acquired the rights to ...

NEW YORK (RNS) — July 23 marks the 131st anniversary of the birth of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, whom the Rasta faith considers the incarnation of God. NEW YORK (RNS) — After the sun set over ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — At a recent opening of the newest Rastafari place of worship just outside Kenya’s capital, some of the faithful gathered to sing rhythmic songs, read Scripture and exchange ...

We visit a group of Rastafarians from Jamaica and the United States who worship the late Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie. They live in a small rural community about 200 miles south of the capitol of ...

SHASHAMANE, Ethiopia -- The promised land of the world's Rastafarians can be found along a narrow highway in Ethiopia's ancient Rift Valley, a landscape of scattered trees with trunks the size of ...

SHASHEMENE, Ethiopia -- A Jamaican lilt rises in Albert Allen's voice as he chants the multiples of five in English to a group of wiggly children in the cement-block Rasta Community School. Not ...

(AP) The robed Rastafarian priest looked out over the turquoise sea off Jamaica’s southeast coast and fervently described his belief that deliverance is at hand. Around him at the sprawling Bobo ...

Charles A. Price received funding from National Science Foundation, Ford Foundation, W.K.Kellogg Foundation, National Community Development Institute, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — At a recent opening of the newest Rastafari place of worship just outside Kenya’s capital, some of the faithful gathered to sing rhythmic songs, read Scripture and exchange ...