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.

Between the minaret of the Fatimid mosque and the bell tower of the church at Saint Catherine's Monastery, south Sinai, lies a place of peaceful coexistence between Muslims and Christians. During the ...

St. Catherine’s Monastery is going digital. The monastery that claims to be the oldest in the world ­— not destroyed, not abandoned in 17 centuries — has begun digitizing its ancient manuscripts for ...

Egypt reopened on Saturday an ancient library that holds thousands of centuries-old religious and historical manuscripts at the famed St. Catherine Monastery, a UNESCO World Heritage site, in South ...

A retired army general says he has filed a court case pushing for Egypt's historic Saint Catherine's Monastery to be demolished and its Greek monks deported on the grounds that they pose a threat 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 ...

At the end of a meeting in South Africa, the WCC central committee expresses "concern" over the future of the 1,500-year-old place of worship, and calls for a “formal letter" to be sent to Egyptian ...

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. The ...

An attack on security forces near Egypt’s St Catherine’s Monastery in south Sinai on Tuesday killed at least one police officer and injured four others, the Health Ministry said, just a week after two ...

Security stops Sinai assault on St. Catherine and its biblical library, but symbolism matters more. Two weeks after killing 47 Egyptians in twin church bombings on Palm Sunday, the Islamic State ...