The Ethiopian Church has six monasteries and 70 monks in the Holy Land, according to the office of the patriarch. A handful are at Deir el-Sultan.

Enthusiastic fans of Ethiopian music might turn up, 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.

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 ...

Lake Tana has been the political and spiritual centre of the Ethiopian Christian faith for many centuries. It is made up of 37 Islands, around 27 of which have monasteries, churches, and ruined of ...

1 of 11 | The dome of Deir Al-Sultan Monastery on the roof of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem on Aug. 22, 2022. Monks from Egypt and Ethiopia have... (Amit Elkayam / The New York Times) ...

Joseph travels to Northern Ethiopia to uncover its ancient history. Joseph travels Northern Ethiopia from the monasteries of Lake Tana to the castles of King Fasiladas in Gondar and the rock-hewn ...

Evgeni D. Kagan, Jerusalem, the Old City, the Ethiopian Monastery, Hadashot Arkheologiyot: Excavations and Surveys in Israel / חדשות ארכיאולוגיות: חפירות וסקרים בישראל, כרך‎ 133 (2021) ...

She was briefly imprisoned in the 1930s during Ethiopia’s fight for independence. She became a nun at 19, moving to a monastery in Ethiopia’s Wello province after the government denied her ...