Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, a classically trained musician who once abandoned music for a hermit-like life as a nun in her native Ethiopia and later returned to the piano with a genre-defying ...

Eventually, she abandoned music - and the city - for a hilltop monastery in a remote part of northern Ethiopia. She became a nun, shaved her head and stopped wearing shoes. The death of the ...

having heard a rumour that there is an Ethiopian monastery on the roof. The church has been embroiled for decades in a quarrel over land rights. But in all seasons, Ethiopian monks sleep here in ...

As Christianity spread across the region, the Church began to establish monasteries, churches, and religious communities. These early Ethiopian Christians believed in the significance of ...

To the east stands a grand circular building, in the style of an Ethiopian monastery, made for the national bank in the 1960s during the modernising phase of Emperor Haile Selassie’s reign.

In a centuries-long conflict, Egyptian Coptic monks and Ethiopian Orthodox monks have competed for the control of a small monastery located on the roof of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher ...

If you are to ever make it to the Abuna Garima monastery in Ethiopia’s Tigrai Highlands, you would find a book that is highly revered by local monks and believed to be one of the Christian world ...

Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, the Ethiopian nun revered for her distinctive piano compositions and charitable contributions, has died, according to Ethiopia’s state-run outlet Fana ...

She was briefly imprisoned in the 1930s during Ethiopia’s fight for independence. She became a nun at 19, moving to a monastery in Ethiopia’s Wello province after the government denied her ...