In his Geneva hotel suite one morning last week young British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, his brow worry-puckered, argued ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rastafarians drum and sing during a special prayer and worship meeting at Menengai forest in Kenya. James Wakibia/SOPA ...

Rastafarian beliefs regarding Haile Selassie I and the eventual repatriation of blacks to Africa. Haile Selassie never regarded himself as God, nor did he adhere to Rastafari. Rastafarians regard ...

Haile Selassie was known as a child as Lij Tafari Makonnen. Lij is translated as "child" and serves to indicate that a youth is of noble blood. His given name Tafari means "one who is respected or ...

Queen Elizabeth II is the head of the British monarchy and as such is bowed or curtsied to by nearly all who meet her. The Queen has been on the throne for 67 years and in that time she has rarely ...

Members of the Rastafarian community play drums as others chant and sing during a celebration to mark 133 years since the ...

CONSIDERED a champion in Africa, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I received a rapturous welcome from the Rastafarian community when he arrived at Palisadoes Airport in Jamaica on April 21, 1966, 55 ...

You ever have those mornings when you wake up to people thinking you're Jesus? Tefari Makonnen Woldemikael was born to the royal line of Ethiopia in 1892, who traditionally claim descent from King ...

Beneath portraits of their Pan-African heroes, including the man they worship as God incarnate, Ethiopia's former emperor ...

On November 2nd, 1930 in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, Ras Tafari was crowned as His Imperial Majesty Emperor Haile Selassie the first and his wife Empress Menen. History will record that ...