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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(eTN) – Egyptian Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni announced Sunday that two golden coins of the Byzantine emperor Valens (AD 364-378) were unearthed early this week in the Sayl al-Tuhfah area in Gebel ...

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 ...

For centuries they have gathered dust on the shelves of a library marooned in a rocky patch of Egyptian desert, their secrets lost in time. But now a collection of enigmatic manuscripts, carefully ...

Dating back to the sixth century BC, St Catherine's Monastery is the world's oldest continuously inhabited monastery — Sally KANDIL Nestled in the Sinai mountains, the ancient St Catherine's Monastery ...

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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 ...