Spend Sunday mornings worshipping at Holy Trinity Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church in Hartwell. It’s the anti-megachurch.

OAKLAND — The schism began the day police officers rushed to the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church expecting to break up a fight. What they found that Sunday morning was a group of priests and ...

Dawit Asghedom, left, father of Nipsey Hussle, and Asghedom’s cousin Aida Ghidey, center, at a memorial for Nipsey Hussle at Medhani-Alem Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church in Los Angeles on Sunday.

Members of Los Angeles’ Eritrean American community gathered to remember Hussle during a memorial service Sunday at the Medhani-Alem Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church in South Los Angeles.

“The fourth Patriarch of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church, His holiness Abune Dioskoros, passed away… following a long illness,” the Ministry of Information said in a statement.

“It’s taken a toll on a lot of people,” said Aron Tsegaye, a member of North Oakland’s Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church, where the surviving Meharis remain devoted congregants.

His Reverend Abune Baslios, Administrator of the Office of the Patriarch of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church, has been elected as the 6th Patriarch of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church. The ...

Women pray at an Easter service April 23 at the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church in Oakland. The Eritrean faith community in the Bay Area, and the Eritrean community in general, has been split ...

“It’s taken a toll on a lot of people,” said Aron Tsegaye, a member of North Oakland’s Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church, where the surviving Meharis remain devoted congregants.

"The fourth Patriarch of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church, His holiness Abune Dioskoros, passed away... following a long illness," the Ministry of Information said in a statement.