At the foot of Mount Sinai, in the shadow of the place where the Old Testament recounts that Moses received the Ten Commandments from God, there rests one of the most enduring monuments of Christian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. St Catherine’s could see approximately 20 monks evicted dependent on the court ruling - Luca Ladi Bucciolini Egypt could close the ...

In the sixth century, Christian monks built St. Catherine's Monastery in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. The monastery is believed to be located at the very place where God appeared to Moses via a burning ...

An ancient Christian monastic complex was recently uncovered in Egypt — shedding new light on monastic life in Upper Egypt during the Byzantine era. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man stands at St Catherine's Monastery on the Sinai Peninsula. --/dpa St Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai in ...

Meeting on a possible forced closure of the world’s oldest continuously active Christian monastery, Greek and Egyptian officials last week stated the monastery and its monks would be protected but ...