AL ZAAFARANA, Egypt (Reuters) - A speck of green in a sea of sand, St. Anthony's Monastery in Egypt welcomes those seeking God in silence broken only by the whisper of the wind. Sign up here. Monks at ...

Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed a 1,500-year-old monastic complex in the Nile Delta, including a fifth-century building believed to have served as a reception facility for pilgrims, Egypt’s ...

Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has announced a significant archaeological discovery in Beheira, where an Egyptian mission has uncovered a structure believed to have served as a guesthouse ...

The monastic alternative, at least in the West, has become so deeply unfashionable that most people no longer consider the possibility, but there is, at least to me, something deeply appealing about ...

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A monastic delegation from the Russian Orthodox Church is traveling across Egypt to visit every monastery in Alexandria, Beheira and Kafr al-Sheikh. Their first stop on Saturday was the the Monastery ...

Egypt has uncovered a fifth-century AD building believed to have served as a monastic guesthouse during the early days of Coptic monasticism in Beheira governorate. The discovery, made by an Egyptian ...