When Yared was seven years old his father died, and his mother sent him to go live with an uncle, who was a priest of the Ethiopian Orthodox tradition, one of the oldest churches in the world.
هنگامی که یارد هفت ساله بود، پدرش مرد و مادرش برای ادامه زندگی‌اش او را نزد عمویش فرستاد که اهل فرقه ارتدوکس اتوپیایی بود یکی از قدیمی‌ترین کلیساهای جهان