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 ...

Sister Guèbrou (the title emahoy is used for a female monk) was born Yewubdar Guèbru on Dec. 12, 1923, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital. (She changed her name when she became a nun.) ...

The celebrated Ethiopian pianist and nun Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou has died in Jerusalem aged 99, the Ethiopian patriarchate said last week. Guebrou composed more than 150 works and recorded ...

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 ...

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 ...

It features only the pianist Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, a nun in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (“Emahoy,” by which she is generally known, is a religious honorific), and includes ...

Catholic bishops in Ethiopia have warned that insecurity is shutting down churches and forcing more priests and nuns to flee their monasteries, as consequences of the war in the northern province ...

The Daughters of Charity has supported vulnerable people in Tigray since the early 1970s. Sister Medhin with school children in Tigray, Ethiopia, in March 2024. The Scotland-based organization ...

Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, an Ethiopian nun who became known for her captivating piano compositions, has passed away, according to Fana Broadcasting, a state-run Ethiopian news outlet.

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 ...