A team of researchers is creating the first digitized archive of manuscripts from St. Catherine's Monastery in Egypt's Sinai peninsula. The aim is to preserve the heritage housed in ...

Catherine’s Monastery. Egypt Ambassdor to Greece Omar Amer Youssef attended the meeting. Mubarak stated that the archbishop is participating in the efforts made to develop the city of Saint ...

Fr Justin is helping to share online the historic manuscripts in an ancient Sinai monastery For a monk who lives in the Sinai desert in Egypt, in the world's oldest working monastery, Father ...

Egypt's Copts, who make up most of the Muslim ... Friday's attack on two buses near the Monastery of St Samuel the Confessor in Minya also left at least seven others wounded - including children ...

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The South Sinai Governorate has categorically denied circulating rumors suggesting any threats to Saint Catherine’s Monastery or plans to evacuate it. Governor of South Sinai, Khaled Mubarak ...

In a sixth-century Egyptian monastery’s library, high-tech imaging of parchments reveals thousands of pages of hidden text. This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic ...

When most people think of Egypt, their minds inevitably wander to the Pyramids of Giza or the temples of Luxor. While these ...

Major General Khaled Mubarak, the governor of South Sinai, has denied plans to evacuate Egypt’s historic Saint Catherine’s Monastery, according to a statement on Thursday. Mubarak emphasized ...

Three Egyptian Coptic monks have been "brutally killed" inside a monastery in South Africa, the Church has said. Father Takla Moussa, Father Minah ava Marcus and Father Youstos ava Marcus were ...