Much of the Christian world, especially the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches, have been roiled by reports that an Egyptian court has mandated that St. Catherine's Monastery be taken over by the ...

CAIRO -- Egypt says the sovereignty of a famous monastery is assured. Egypt's foreign minister on Wednesday told his Greek counterpart that the spiritual and religious value of the Saint Catherine ...

Much of the Christian world, especially the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches, have been roiled by reports that an ...

Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis leads a Greek delegation to Egypt regarding the ownership status of the Sinai Monastery.

President Donald Trump recently joined the Coptic Orthodox Christian community in observing Global Coptic Day — a celebration ...

To emphasise the ‘ritualistic’ nature of the event, some sources even added that the body of the monk was confiscated by the Israelis, and it was handed back to the Orthodox church only after several ...

The Egyptian government is reassuring that nothing will change in the legal status or the religious character of the ...

Pope Tawadros II, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, presided over the Divine Liturgy and the ...

Mount Athos, a verdant peninsula in northern Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more than 1,000 ...