The shadow of Mount Sinai stretches across the valley at the foot of the Greek Orthodox Monastery of St. Catherine in the Sinai peninsula some 240 miles southeast of Cairo. The steeple from a church ...

ST. CATHERINE, Egypt -- In the Bible, Moses climbs Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments. But he was the chosen one, and I am a mere mortal. Divine intervention seemed unlikely as I stood at the ...

(Bahira AMIN/AFP/AFP) Atop one of Egypt's Sinai mountains, near where the three Abrahamic faiths say God spoke with Moses, another unmistakable sound rings out: the incessant drilling of construction ...

FILE PHOTO: A general view shows part of the exterior of St. Catherine's monastery in south Sinai, Egypt, March 7, 2019. Picture taken March 7, 2019. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany/File Photo FILE PHOTO ...

Meeting on a possible forced closure of the world’s oldest continuously active Christian monastery, Greek and Egyptian officials last week stated the monastery and its monks would be protected but ...

Greece and Egypt have agreed to safeguard the status of one of the world's oldest sites of Christian worship, foreign ministers of both countries said late on Wednesday, after an Egyptian court ruling ...

ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece said on Thursday it had agreed with Egypt on the future of St Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Egypt's Mount Sinai, one of the world's oldest sites of Christian worship ...

In the Bible, Moses climbs Mount Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments. But he was the chosen one, and I am a mere mortal. Divine intervention seemed unlikely as I stood at the base of the mountain, ...