At 19, she joined the Gishen Mariam monastery in Ethiopia’s northern highlands. For the next decade, she barely left the monastery grounds, where she slept in a hut on a dried-mud bed.

Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, the composer and piano-playing nun who died this week at the age of 99, had an extraordinary life, which included being a trailblazer for women's equality and ...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Mar 8, 2017 / 13:43 pm. The Church in Ethiopia is mourning the deaths of four religious sisters who died in a car accident that critically injured three other sisters.

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

As Hunger Crisis Unfolds in Ethiopia, Mary’s Meals Teams Up With Catholic Nuns to Feed Children The Daughters of Charity has supported vulnerable people in Tigray since the early 1970s.

Ethiopian aristocracy to Jerusalem monastery. The nun was born Yewubdar Gebru on December 12, 1923, in Addis Ababa, to an aristocratic family. At age six, she and her sister were sent to a boarding ...

With Selamawit I visited Walatta Petros' monastery, for which you have to travel for about an hour by motorboat across Lake Tana; it's very remote — no running water, no electricity. At this monastery ...

Catholic bishops in Ethiopia warned that insecurity is shutting down churches and forcing more priests and nuns to flee, as consequences of the war in the northern province of Tigray are felt across ...

Eritrea and Ethiopia have made peace! These two countries, in the Horn of Africa, have been at war for two decades. But now, as one podcast reports, “Something truly remarkable in African ...

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.She ...

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