Ethiopia converted to Christianity around the year 330 through the work of two Syrian young brothers who were taken prisoners in the Red Sea and brought to the court of Axum, where they reached a ...

A delegation from Howard University Divinity School has returned an ancient manuscript to an Ethiopian monastery after scholars discovered its place of origin. The manuscript contains two texts ...

Ethiopia has a number of unexplored sites which are stunning and have greater cultural, historical, religious and economic significance. The monasteries that are located on Lake Tana and the ...

Ethiopia's neglected island monasteries. Dampness and decay have taken their toll on ancient drawings . By Nita Bhalla in northern Amhara. As the boat's motor revved into action, and we set off from ...

Photographs by Wendy Laura Belcher capture castles, monasteries and more scenes from Ethiopia. In 2011, Wendy Laura Belcher, an assistant professor of comparative literature and African American ...

Two rival monks are posted at all times in a rooftop courtyard at what many believe is the site of Jesus' crucifixion: a bearded Copt in a black robe and an Ethiopian sunning himself on a wooden ...

In 2011, Belcher spent a year in Ethiopia researching hagiographies — biographies of saints — stored in monasteries to gain an understanding of Ethiopia's women saints. In this work she is ...

The Ethiopian Church has six monasteries and 70 monks in the Holy Land, according to the office of the patriarch. A handful are stationed at Deir el-Sultan.

People walk down a stairway at Deir Mar Moussa Al-Habashi (St Moses the Ethiopian monastery), one of the ancient monasteries in Syria in the mountains near the desert in the Nabek area in Damascus ...

A delegation from Howard Univer­sity Divinity School has returned an ancient manuscript to an Ethiopian monastery after scholars discovered its place of origin. The manuscript contains two texts, the ...

Alton B. Pollard III, the school’s dean, said the manuscript was returned on Jan. 11 to the Debre Libanos monastery, which is about two hours away from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital.