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

A court ruling in Egypt about St. Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai has sparked grave concern within the Greek Orthodox Church ...

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

Saint Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai, Egypt is one of the most important Christian monasteries in the world ...

At the center of the ongoing conflict is Esphigmenou Monastery, whose brotherhood continues to defy court and church orders ...

Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls enclose a diverse Christian Orthodox community. The Monastery of Simonos Petra, also known as Simonopetra — or Simon’s Rock — transcends ...

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Also known as Simonopetra, or “Simon’s Rock,” the monastery is part of the autonomous, all-male monastic peninsula in northern Greece. While only Orthodox men can join the brotherhood ...

Hungarian government contributes 60 million forints (EUR 145,000) for refurbishing Syriac Orthodox Monastery Tristan Azbej, the state secretary for aiding persecuted Christians and the head of the ...