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While beheadings grab headlines, poverty and cultural friction push emigration to the West—where the welcome is not always ...

Egypt has ordered the closure of the Monastery of Saint Catherine of Sinai, the world's oldest continuously functioning ...

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

A court ruling in Cairo to seize the historical Monastery of St Catherine, evict the monk' community and operate it as a museum has shocked ...