Africa’s Jerusalem: A Pilgrimage
Tuesday, January 22, 2019
THE sun’s scorching heat failed to diminish my desire to immediately visit the holy land of Lalibela, Ethiopia. The city is known as the “Jerusalem of Africa.”
From the Lalibela Airport, on Friday, the first week of December 2018, I was taken by a tour guide, to the city’s church complex. The 11 churches in the city monolithic structures carved from whole stones. Unlike most buildings that are erected on the ground, thes
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