Abuna Yemata Guh is one of more than 100 rock-hewn churches in northern Ethiopia, but it’s the only one that requires climbing up a 1,000-foot cliff face to reach. Father Assefa, 64, has done it ...

With its 900-year-old churches carved from rock, the Ethiopian town of Lalibela attracts tens of thousands of pilgrims each year.

The international seminar on the Safeguarding of the Rock-Hewn Churches of Goreme which was held in situ from 5 to 11 September 1993, with assistance from the World Heritage Fund, was instrumental in ...