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

Egypt has denied that a controversial court ruling over Sinai's Saint Catherine monastery threatens the ... status", after the head of the Greek Orthodox church in Greece denounced it.

The Greek premier's office said Mitsotakis emphasised the importance of "preserving the pilgrimage and Greek Orthodox character of the monastery and resolving the issue in an institutional manner ...

Credit: Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East In an official statement, the archbishop warned: “The monastery’s properties are being seized and confiscated. This spiritual ...

ISTANBUL (RNS) — Initial reports that the centuries-old St. Catherine's Monastery would be closed were denied, but Orthodox leaders remain concerned that the monastery's new status will ...

After fifteen centuries of autonomy, the Orthodox Monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai has passed into the hands of the Egyptian State, according to a ruling issued by the Ismailia court.

It became the home to the relic. Soon an Orthodox male monastery was established at this church. It was first mentioned in the chronicles in 1587. The construction of the Dormition Cathedral began ...

The 15th meeting of the heads of the three Oriental Orthodox Churches in the Middle East, which concluded at St Bishoy’s Monastery in Wadi El Natrun, Egypt, on Sunday, decided to invite Mor ...

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 ...

The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls enclose a diverse Christian ...

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