At the foot of Mount Sinai, in the shadow of the place where the Old Testament recounts that Moses received the Ten Commandments from God, there rests one of the most enduring monuments of Christian ...

Ladan Cher visits St. Catherine’s Monastery at Mt. Sinai and talks about the monks’ manuscript preservation efforts: Just as they have done for 17 centuries, the Greek Orthodox monks of St.

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 ...

Saint Catherine's Monastery is the oldest continuously-functioning library and Christian monastery in the world. Located at the base of Mount Sinai in Egypt, the monastery was built by orders of ...

St. Catherine city is the most special and distinguished city in Sinai, and it is the highest inhabited place in Sinai, as it is located on a plateau that rises 1600 meters above sea level, and is ...

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 ...

When conducting historical research in the field of Japanese history, it is common practice to use ancient documents which remain throughout the country. Conversely, the medieval Islamic world has not ...

Saint Catherine's Monastery, 6th century (UNESCO World Heritage List, 2002), Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. (CAIRO) — Gunmen attacked security forces near St. Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s south Sinai on ...

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 ...

The power struggle surrounding (and within) the Monastery of St. Catherine in Sinai, one of the oldest and most revered Christian sites in the world, has ended, putting an end to a crisis that had ...