The future of St. Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula remains a source of controversy with tensions rising after a recent court ruling. Saturday, June 28, 2025 A service of EWTN News ...

Sacred Places” is a new exhibit at the Putnam Museum and Science Center, Davenport. (Putnam Museum and Science Center) The exhibit encourages the exploration of dozens of sacred sites ...

Preserving a sacred legacy Founded in the 6th century and recognised by UNESCO as a site of “outstanding universal value”, St. Catherine’s Monastery attracts over 100,000 pilgrims and ...

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Egypt was "fully committed to preserving the unique and sacred religious status of Saint Catherine's monastery", in a phone call with Greek Prime Minister ...

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 Monastery ...

Hatshepsut, known by her royal Horus name Ma’at-ka-re, which translates to “Goddess of Truth is the life force of the Sun God,” was born in 1507 BCE as the daughter of Pharaoh Thutmose I and his first ...

A 3,000-year-old city with pyramids, which has been discovered by archaeologists, is believed to be "one of the most ancient and important ceremonial centres" of the Mayan civilisation. Los Abuelos, a ...

The traveling exhibit, known as 'Sacred Places,' will be at the Putnam from June 14 to September 1, featuring global places and practices of worship.

West Asian country seems fated to exist in a state of perpetual paranoia, as its foundational vision calls for interminable ...

The kiswa, cloth for covering the sacred Kaaba, used to be manufactured at the site . ... Kiswet Al-Kaaba house officially one of Egypt's archaeological sites. Nevine El-Aref, Wednesday 4 Sep 2013.

Archaeologists have unearthed a “spectacular” ancient temple housing hundreds of statues dedicated to the Greek God Apollo.