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 ...

Frank Gardner An Ethiopian nun at the Church of St Mary of Zion in Axum. The red carpet has been laid out in preparation for the Lent Procession around the church. Frank Gardner Prayer and ...

By Bezawit Bogale "I want to be an Ethiopian Catholic nun." With this bold declaration, Emahoy Haregeweine, a pioneering ...

It reconstructs his formative years in the the Horn of Africa and his diasporic life in the Holy Land and Italian peninsula, where he emerged as a prominent intermediary figure at Santo Stefano degli ...

Mary Yongi (center) is consoled by friends at Langa Langa Estate in Nakuru town on March 11, 2019.Her sister Florence Yongi, a nun, was among those who perished in the Ethiopian Airlines crash.