Now one of Egypt's most sacred places - revered by Jews, Christians and Muslims - is at the heart of an unholy row over plans ...

In the sixth century, Christian monks built St. Catherine's Monastery in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. The monastery is believed to be located at the very place where God appeared to Moses via a burning ...

St. Catherine’s Monastery, located in the Sinai Desert in Egypt, has been a sacred Christian site since the 500s. Even after the Islamic Conquest, the monastery’s monks had warm relations with ...

Archbishop Damianos of Mount Sinai's Monastery of St Catherine is stepping down at age 91 amidst internal unrest.

Ladan Cher visits St. Catherine's Monastery at Mt. Sinai and talks about the monks' manuscript preservation efforts: Just as they have done for 17 centuries, t ...

CAIRO, May 29 (MENA) - The foreign ministry's official spokesperson Thursday stressed that rumors about seizing St. Catherine's Monastery and its affiliated land are completely unfounded.

As a Greek delegation prepares to arrive in Cairo on Wednesday to resolve tensions over the fate of St Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, Ahram Online examines how the controversy surrounding one ...

Greece and Egypt aim to resolve tensions over St. Catherine’s Monastery on Mount Sinai, with high-level talks and diplomatic efforts.

Egypt reaffirmed its commitment to preserving the religious status of the historic St. Catherine’s Monastery, located at the foot of Mt. Sinai in the Sinai Peninsula and administratively ...

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.

Gunmen attacked security forces near St. Catherine's Monastery in Egypt's Sinai, killing at least one police officer and injuring others ...