This is an updated version of a story first published on Dec. 1, 2019. The original video can be viewed here. If faith is a mystery, there are few places in the Christian world where the mystery is ...

In 2015, the world looked on in horror as the terror group Daesh (ISIS) brought their war to the ancient site of Palmyra. The group proceeded to destroy tombs and ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on Dec. 1, 2019. The original video can be viewed here. If faith is a ...

Ruins such as Cambodia's Angkor Wat and Peru's Machu Picchu spark intense speculation about how they came to be built - along with unabashed amazement at the ancients' architectural abilities. Such ...

Name of restaurant: Lalibela, named after the town in Ethiopia known for its churches carved from stone. Owner Tenagne Belachew is from a nearby town called Wole. She had put in her time at other ...

In better times, the cobbled streets of Lalibela in northern Ethiopia hummed with foreign tourists drawn to its ancient rock-hewn churches. Today, there are none. The historic town has been emptied of ...

From all corners of a nation they come, often walking for hundreds of miles barefoot: Ethiopian Orthodox Christians on a once-in-a-lifetime journey. Their destination is Lalibela in the north of ...

(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 ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Forces from Ethiopia's Tigray region have taken control of the town of Lalibela, whose famed rock-hewn churches are a United Nations World Heritage Site, and residents were ...

Voiceover: In a quiet corner of Harlem, Lalibela—a family-run Ethiopian restaurant with deep roots and bold flavors—serves food that tastes like home. Sisay Kassa: "My name is Sisay Kassa. I am from ...

Lalibela is a nondescript town of a few dusty streets atop a rugged mountain some 200 miles north of Addis Ababa. But its 11 monolithic churches—carved out of the red volcanic stone in the 12th ...

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 ...