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 ...

This little cross is a reminder that Ethiopia has been a Christian nation for 2000 years. According to the Bible,in Acts chapter 8 the servant of the Ethiopian Queen Candace heard about ...

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 ...

Her use of mirrors also multiplies the view of the towers and their cross cutouts. “It looks like there are a million Ethiopia Coptic Orthodox crosses and a million light towers,” she says.

Aba Gebreselassie stands near a big tree in the forest around Ura Kidane Mihret Monastery in the Zege peninsula, Ethiopia. Image by Solomon Yimer for Mongabay. Mongabay: What social functions do ...

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 ...