Nestled in the Sinai mountains, the ancient St Catherine's Monastery has been the centre of recent tensions after an Egyptian court ruled last week that it sat on state-owned land. Dating back to the ...

An appeals court in the Egyptian city of Ismailia has ruled that the monks of St. Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai Peninsula have the right to use the monastery and surrounding religious heritage ...

Saint Catherine's Monastery is the oldest continuously-functioning library and Christian monastery in the world. Located at the base of Mount Sinai in Egypt, the monastery was built by orders of ...

ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece said on Thursday it had agreed with Egypt on the future of St Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Egypt's Mount Sinai, one of the world's oldest sites of Christian worship ...

On Mount Sinai in the Saint Catherine valley, hotels are under construction as part of Egypt's new tourism megaproject - Copyright AFP GREG BAKER On Mount Sinai in ...

St Catherine’s Monastery, located at the foot of Mount Sinai in Egypt and known for its sacred peace, is now preparing to open up to the public. The Greek Orthodox monastery was founded in the 6th ...

The monastery's council of monks appointed Papadopoulos following an election held on 14 September. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greece's Deputy Foreign Minister Alexandra Papadopoulou, ...

Dating back to the sixth century BC, St Catherine's Monastery is the world's oldest continuously inhabited monastery - Copyright AFP/File Sally KANDIL Dating back to ...

Atop one of Egypt's Sinai mountains, near where the three Abrahamic faiths say God spoke with Moses, another unmistakable sound rings out: the incessant drilling of construction work. In the remote, ...

On Mount Sinai in the Saint Catherine valley, hotels are under construction as part of Egypt's new tourism megaproject — Bahira AMIN Atop one of Egypt's Sinai mountains, near where the three Abrahamic ...