By Amina Ismail, Nafisa Eltahir and Renee Maltezou CAIRO/ATHENS/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Bahr el-Din Yakoub fled Sudan to seek ...

The monks of St. Catherine's Monastery, a 1,600-year-old Greek Orthodox site in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, closed its doors to ...

Greece and Egypt have agreed to safeguard the status of one of the world's oldest sites of Christian worship, foreign ...

The Greek Orthodox Church had been concerned after an administrative court said the state owns the land on which monastery of ...

Egypt reaffirmed its commitment to safeguarding the Monastery of Saint Catherine of Sinai, the oldest functioning Christian ...

Greece and Egypt agreed to continue talks on the Saint Catherine Monastery at Mount Sinai after a controversial ruling by a ...

Rhodes has been hit by a mega 6.2-scale earthquake this morning, while Turkey was also rocked by a 5.8 quake that caused 70 ...

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

A ruling by an Egyptian court transferring ownership of one of the world s oldest monasteries to the state has provoked ...

Egypt’s government moved to assuage concerns over the status of the historic Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, clarifying ...

Greece and Egypt have launched a diplomatic effort to reaffirm the status of Saint Catherine’s Monastery, one of the most ...

ATHENS - Greece and Egypt have agreed to safeguard the status of one of the world's oldest sites of Christian worship, foreign ministers of both countries said late on Wednesday, after an Egyptian ...