A legal ruling by Egypt’s Ismailia Administrative Appeal Court on 28 May ignited tensions between the state and the Greek ...

Egypt reiterated its pledge to safeguard the religious status of the historic St. Catherine’s Monastery, nestled at the base of Mount Sinai in the Si ...

Although St. Catherine’s Monastery is preparing to appeal the ruling before the Court of Cassation, according to an informed source who spoke to Mada Masr, the court’s decision has created a new legal ...

At the foot of Mount Sinai, the Greek Orthodox Monastery of St. Catherine stands as one of Christianity’s oldest active places of worship. [Photo by Sarantis Michalopoulos / Euractiv] Brussels ...

Erase. That is the key word. Erasure has long defined the Islamic approach to pre-Islamic civilizations. Historically — and ...

Founded in 565 A.D. under the orders of Byzantine emperor Justinian I, St. Catherine’s Monastery is the oldest continually inhabited Christian monastery in the world and arguably Christendom’s ...

Also, approximately 3,330 ancient manuscripts remain in the library of St. Catherine's Monastery. The manuscripts are written in 12 different languages including Arabic, Greek, Syrian and Coptic.

The properties, that is, are located in places of general interest to St. Catherine’s Monastery, even far away from Sinai and the monastery’s headquarters.

The Prime Minister and the President of Egypt agreed that further escalation in the Middle East must be avoided ...

Egypt's foreign minister held a series of high-level diplomatic calls on Friday and Saturday to cement a ceasefire between Iran and Israel, following directives from President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi ...