Archbishop Makarios of Australia has expressed deep sorrow and condemnation following the deadly attack on the Greek Orthodox ...

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

A court ruling in Egypt about St. Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai has sparked grave concern within the Greek Orthodox Church about religious freedom. Saturday, June 21, 2025 A service of EWTN News ...

The monastery opened in 2010 at the advocacy of Archbishop Amfilochios, Father Meletios’ spiritual father and a former leader of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of New Zealand. Father Meletios ...

EU socialists are challenging Egypt’s recent move to seize land from one of Christianity’s oldest monasteries.

St. Catherine’s Monastery, which is inhabited by Greek Orthodox monks in Egypt, is considered to be the world’s oldest continuously operating Christian monastery.

A suicide bombing at a Greek Orthodox church in Damascus killed at least 22 people and injured 63 others on Sunday, according ...

Egypt's Foreign Minister Badr Abdelaaty on Wednesday told his Greek counterpart George Gerapetritis that the spiritual and religious value of the Saint Catherine Monastery and surrounding ...

Nestled in the Sinai mountains, the ancient St Catherine's Monastery has been the centre of recent tensions after an Egyptian court ruled last week that it sat on state-owned land.

GREEK political and ecclesiastical authorities have spoken out for the rights of the monks of St Catherine’s Monastery on Mount Sinai, after an Egyptian court ruled on its legal status last week. The ...

The Greek Foreign Minister visits his counterpart in Cairo to express his discontent over the ruling that grants Egypt the ...

An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.3 struck the peninsula of Mount Athos on June 7, at 15:46. The strongest in a series of tremors, its epicenter was located in the sea near the coastal monasteries ...