Lalibela is one of the most remarkable places in Ethiopia and truly unlike anywhere else in the world. Located in the northern highlands, this town is famous for its rock hewn churches, massive ...

This Christmas season brings fresh hope with vaccines rolling out and a new year dawning. It is a time of faith, and reminded us of Lalibela, a monument to rare devotion. 800 years ago, an Ethiopian ...

This 12th century church carved from stone in Lalibela, Ethiopia, is among the country's architectural marvels. This towering stone obelisk in Axum, Ethiopia, is among the remnants of Axum, an empire ...

Priest Mekonnen Fatne stood among his Ethiopian Orthodox faithful, looking upon a nine-centuries-old church they feared could be wrecked at any minute. Over the church loomed a massive tarpaulin ...

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 ...

If faith is a mystery, there are few places in the Christian world where the mystery is deeper than in Lalibela. 800 years ago, an Ethiopian king ordered a new capital for Christians. At 8,000 feet, ...