Michele Borzoni
Tearsheet
2014
Michele Borzoni
Tearsheet
2014
Faithful praying during the over night ceremony to commemorate Saint Gabriel in Bet Gabriel church
Ethiopia’s Orthodox Christians are among the oldest Christian communities in the world. With its eleven 900-year-old churches carved from rock, the Ethiopian town of Lalibela attracts tens of thousands of orthodox pilgrims from all over Ethiopia each year. Lalibela`s population is about 30,000, all of them are Christian and there are more then one thousand priests. The social and economic life of the city revolves entirely around the rock churches and the dream of every child of Lalibela is to become a priest to ensure a comfortable life and a family.
Father Abebe Abebaw, 65 years old, 6 children, inside the Na'akuto La'ab monastery, seven kilometers far from lalibela
Believers commemorating Saint George in Bet Giyorgis
Faithful praying during the over night ceremony to commemorate Saint Gabriel in Bet Gabriel church
Believers commemorating Saint George in Bet Giyorgis
A faithfull prays in front of the Bet Medhane Alem church ("Saviour of the world church")
Faithful praying during the over night ceremony to commemorate Saint Gabriel in Bet Gabriel church
Saturday open market of Lalbela
Sunday ceremony in Bet Maryam (House of Mary), commemorating the Virgin Mary with an overnight mass
Father Getnet Endeshaw, 70 years old, 9 children is the keyman of Bet Danaghel church (House of the Virgin Martyrs)
Faithful praying during the over night ceremony to commemorate Saint Gabriel in Bet Gabriel church
Getnet Melese, 18 years old, has been blessed and exorcised by Father Abebe Abebaw in the Na'akuto La'ab monastery
