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 ...

Political and ecclesiastical authorities have defended the ancient rights of the Greek Orthodox St Catherine’s Monastery on ...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi reaffirmed Egypt’s commitment to preserving the unique religious status of St.

Initial reports that the centuries-old St. Catherine's Monastery would be closed were denied, but Orthodox leaders remain ...

The monastery, which is still inhabited by monks, and its surrounding properties are the target. Egyptian President Al-Sisi ...

Egypt is closing St. Catherine’s Monastery, confiscating its property, and evicting its monks to turn the world’s oldest ...

Saint Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai, Egypt is one of the most important Christian monasteries in the world ...

For the first time in centuries, the sounds of Byzantine psalms, as they resonated within Hagia Sophia, have been brought ...

a church built by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I in the 6th century, which later became a mosque after the Ottoman conquest in 1453, designated a museum in 1934 by Kemal Attaturk’s secular ...

Its second iteration was inaugurated in 415 CE by the emperor Theodosius II, but was burned down again in 532 CE. The third church, today’s Hagia Sophia, was built by Justinian I, an ambitious ...