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

Nestled in the Sinai mountains, the ancient St Catherine's Monastery has been the centre of recent tensions after an Egyptian ...

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 ...

The archaeological sites of Old Cairo are being transformed and upgraded as part of plans to turn the district into a more ...

Beyond the infrastructure, I was deeply moved by Egypt’s embrace of its rich, layered cultural identity - from the Hanging Church and Amr Ibn al-As Mosque in Old Cairo to the seamless ...

A cornerstone of Cairo’s Coptic heritage, the Hanging Church – officially known as Saint Virgin Mary’s Coptic Orthodox Church – is one of the oldest and most celebrated Christian sites in Egypt.

Egypt. Land of pharaohs ... All of it was apparent during the first day tour of Cairo religious facilities. The highlight was Abu Serga, the Church of St. Sergius and Bacchus.

Photo Credits: Mr. Arunansh B. Goswami. Near the aforementioned church in Cairo is also The Hanging Church, one of Egypt’s oldest churches, believed to have been built in 690 AD. This church has over ...

The Hanging Church in Cairo. Credit: Daniel Mayer ... and from there traveled to Upper Egypt. It is on this part of the Nile that a page from the Bible appeared on the surface of the water containing ...

The Hanging Church in Cairo. (photo credit: Daniel Mayer is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons) Father Yaqub Suleiman, a priest of the Hanging Church, recently shared insights into ...

In a part of Cairo known as the Garbage ... shisha insists that I visit their local church, the Coptic Church of the Virgin Mary, known as the Hanging Church. It's so named because of its nave ...

An Egyptian man was sentenced Sunday to death by hanging for a deadly attack on a Cairo church in 2017 claimed by the Islamic ... Coptic Christians, who account for around 10 percent of Egypt's ...