FILE - This Oct. 16, 2017, file photo, shows one of the 12th century churches carved from stone in Lalibela, Ethiopia. The architectural marvels are one of the country's most magical attractions, ...

(RNS) — 'My heart is broken for us Ethiopians in America and around the world. Our life is dismantled,' said Kesis Asteraye Tsige, an Ethiopian priest in Kansas City. (RNS) — The fate of the ancient ...

Abuna Yemata Guh is one of more than 100 rock-hewn churches in northern Ethiopia, but it’s the only one that requires climbing up a 1,000-foot cliff face to reach. Father Assefa, 64, has done it every ...

The Ethiopian Forest Churches are exactly what the Benedict Option should look like on a conceptual scale: it is not a fleeing from the world but a conserving of the good, true, and beautiful — the ...

FILE PHOTO: Ethiopian Orthodox faithful attend Epiphany celebration to commemorate the baptism of Jesus Christ on Lake Dambal in Batu town of Oromia Region NAIROBI (Reuters) - Access to social media ...

How Tewahedo Orthodox theology led congregations to become an oasis of forest conservation. In church, Getnet Alemayehu’s father liked to sit beneath a tree, one he had planted himself. In its shade ...

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Ethiopia has strongly condemned attacks in the Oromia region that claimed lives and ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopia has always held me in thrall. It is a cradle of prehistoric humankind. It embraced Christianity long before the missionaries arrived. Its people carved subterranean ...

Ethiopia has always held me in thrall. It is a cradle of prehistoric humankind. It embraced Christianity long before the missionaries arrived. Its people carved subterranean churches out of solid rock ...

The cross-shaped rooftop of Beta Giyorgis (Church of St. George) is one of the 11 churches carved out of the earth in the 11th and 12th centuries, in Lalibela, Ethiopia. On some of the islets in Lake ...