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 ...

“My brushes are stronger than terrorists’ RPG’s and my tesserae are mightier than their bullets,” Monk Grigorios Sinaite affirms over our e-mail correspondence. Joseph Toufic El-Jamous, or monk ...

After fifteen centuries of autonomy, the Orthodox Monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai has passed into the hands of the Egyptian State, according to a ruling issued by the Ismailia court. The ...

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, ...

The monastic community at the ancient monastery of St. Catherine’s elected a new abbot on Sunday. The vote came after a crisis in the monastery’s sovereignty — triggered earlier this year by the ...

Security stops Sinai assault on St. Catherine and its biblical library, but symbolism matters more. Two weeks after killing 47 Egyptians in twin church bombings on Palm Sunday, the Islamic State ...

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 ...

With his long black robes and salt-and-pepper beard and ponytail, Father Justin Sinaites hardly looks the part of rock star. But when the tall, lean monk walks through the exhibition of Byzantine ...

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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 ...