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By Nada Arafat – Mada Masr On the evening of August 26, at the foot of Jabal Moussa in the heart of South Sinai, St. Catherine’s Monastery descended into turmoil. From inside its walls, [...]

By Sarantis Michalopoulos – Euractiv – ATHENS – The Egyptian government is seeking guarantees to build a massive tourist resort around one of Christianity’s oldest living sites, [...]

By Coptic Solidarity – This October, during the 43rd session of the General Conference, the Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) [...]

By Al-Monitor The historic library of the remote Saint Catherine’s Monastery, located in Egypt’s South Sinai governorate, has taken up a formidable conservation project to [...]

By Fleur Macdonald – BBC News For a monk who lives in the Sinai desert in Egypt, in the world’s oldest working monastery, Father Justin replies to emails very speedily. It should come [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Exclusive to Coptic Solidarity – Local authorities decided to close down the Saint Catherine Monastery in the Sinai Peninsula, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, on January 5 and [...]

By Tom Whipple – The Times UK –  Ancient works not read by humans since the Dark Ages have been found at an Egyptian monastery, using a technique that allows researchers to [...]

By James Macintyre – Christian Today Islamist gunmen attacked security forces near St Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s south Sinai yesterday, killing at least one police officer [...]