The South Sinai Governorate has categorically denied circulating rumors suggesting any threats to Saint Catherine’s Monastery or plans to evacuate it. Governor of South Sinai, Khaled Mubarak ...

Snowfall on Saint Catherine city in South Sinai led to an unprecedented increase in tourist occupancy rates to the city, after photos and videos circulated on social media showing people playing in ...

Mubarak emphasized the strong ties with the monastery’s administration and their mutual desire to continue cooperation for the public interest and to enhance historical and cultural relations.

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 ...

The Orthodox Church commemorates the Feast Day of Saint Catherine (Agia Ekaterini) of Alexandria, annually on November 25th ...

Saint Catherine’s Monastery was the place where God spoke to Prophet Moses and manifested to him on the mountain. Saint Catherine City, with its distinct character, is located 300 kilometres from the ...

An extraordinary general assembly is set for tomorrow morning. Abbot Damianos resigned recently following internal tensions and a clash with Patriarch Theophilos III. In the past few months, the ...

It was Emperor Justinian I who, in the year 537, commanded a fortified monastery be built here to protect the entrance to Mount Sinai from foreign invaders. In the fourteenth century, a community of ...

At least one police officer has died after armed men attacked security forces near St Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s South Sinai governorate, according to the health ministry, just a week after two ...

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 ...