The future of St. Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula remains a source of controversy with tensions rising after ...

The monastery houses the Chapel of the Burning Bush and is revered by Christians as the site of the Burning Bush in the Book of Exodus, The Washington Times reported. Egypt and Greece clash over St.

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 of the ...

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.

Greece and Egypt have agreed to safeguard the status of one of the world's oldest sites of Christian worship, foreign ...

The court affirmed the right of those affiliated with St. Catherine’s Monastery to utilize ... President El-Sisi emphasized that the relationship between Egypt and Saint Catherine’s Monastery is an ...

Pope Tawadros II, the head of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church, and Pope Leo XIV, head of the Vatican, praised Egypt’s ...

Dating back to the sixth century BC, St Catherine's Monastery ... warned the monastery’s property could now be “seized and confiscated”. Egypt has defended the court ruling, saying it ...

From the Egypt Independent story: The Egyptian presidency has reaffirmed its full commitment to preserving the unique and sacred religious status of St. Catherine’s Monastery in South Sinai ...

Dating back to the sixth century BC, St Catherine's Monastery is the ... head of the Greek Orthodox church in Athens, warned the monastery's property could now be "seized and confiscated". Egypt has ...

EU socialists are challenging Egypt’s recent move to seize land from one of Christianity’s oldest monasteries.