The ruling comes in spite of Egyptian promises to maintain “the unique and sacred religious status of Saint Catherine’s ...

As a Greek delegation prepares to arrive in Cairo on Wednesday to resolve tensions over the fate of St Catherine’s Monastery ...

Our writer stops by the Pangboche Monastery, a 600-year-old Sherpa religious center where Mount Everest climbers receive a blessing before their expeditions When you walk into the Sherpa village ...

AMORGOS, Greece -- For more than a millennium, Orthodox Christian monks have woken up in the predawn darkness to start their day with prayer at the Panagia Hozoviotissa Monastery, built high into ...

If its ancient walls could talk, Sümela Monastery in eastern Turkey would ... the shrine has witnessed the evolution of the Roman Empire into the Byzantine era, the rise of the Ottomans, the ...

When you walk into the Sherpa village of Pangboche ... before all of the tourists and trekkers showed up. The town is built around a 600-year-old monastery, the oldest in the Khumbu Valley.