Although monks and nuns are bound to celibacy ... In customs and beliefs, the Ethiopian Church is a mixture of authentic Christianity, doubtful Judaism, and animism. In addition to Sunday ...

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 ...

Rising from East Africa’s cultural centre, Ethiopia, Tsegué-Maryam devoted herself entirely to improving the lives of others, either through her work as a hilltop nun or through her incredible musical ...

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 ...

When the founder and CEO of the global school-feeding charity Mary’s Meals visited northern Ethiopia last month, he confirmed reports of a widespread hunger crisis unfolding rapidly in Tigray in ...

Her exquisite piano compositions drew fans to the Jerusalem monastery where she lived after fleeing Ethiopia, in a stunning fourth act to her life. The classically trained musician was associated with ...

(Ethiopia and Eritrea have denied that their ... Medical staffers, counselors, nuns and priests said in interviews that most men rejected wives who had been raped — especially those who had ...

An Ethiopian nun who has continued to help people in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia in spite of the conflict that has raged there for nearly three years has been honoured by Trócaire. Sister ...

Read more: The astonishing life and music of Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, the Ethiopian nun who's died at 99 Most musical performances were halted by curfews. Prohibitions against public ...

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 ...

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 ...