The universal language of the human story can be summarized in this idiom: “Life is full of ups and downs.” From sunrise to sunset, morning to night, awake and asleep, work and rest, growing up and hunching back, life and death. This dual cycle of life can be illustrated with…

Born on 1871 east of Keren, in the village of Shīeb, Teklemariam grew up to become one of the leading scholars from the Catholic Seminary of Keren ordained at the age of 22 by French missionaries. He would publish many Catholic and translate many books from Italian to Ge’ez…

The Ewosṭateans were a Christian cenobitic monastic movement founded by Abune Ewosṭatewos in the 14th-century who insisted on Sabbath observance basing his position in the 10 commandments and the Canons of the Apostles. Despite Ewosṭatewos dying in exile, his followers founded several monasteries such as Däbrä Bīzen, Yitain and Maryam…

Adulis was a settlement located along the coast of the Red Sea on the Gulf of Zula south of Massawa in modern-day Eritrea. Historically, it has been active under several kingdoms and empires, from both abroad and local. It is even believed to have been a major port under the…

Christians today appeal to a plethora of verses, chapters, or stories in the Old Testament (Septuagint and Tanakh) that Jesus Christ is believed to have to fulfil. The gospels and the Pauline epistles had already laid the foundation for various hermeneutical techniques that the early church adopted to reveal these…

ʾEwōsṭātewōs was a prominent figure of the Church during the early period of the Solomonic dynasty and was born in the village of Tsiraʿ (Enderta, Tigray). After being ordained as a monk, he founded many monasteries in the northern Ethiopian plateau of Tigray and Seraye (modern-day Eritrea). The 14th century…