A bishop was found dead in July at the Monastery Of Saint Macarius The Great Two Coptic Christian monks have been charged with murder in Egypt, after the head of their desert monastery was found ...

Prosecutors in Egypt have charged a defrocked monk with the murder of a Coptic Christian Bishop at a desert monastery. Bishop Epiphanius, 64, was found dead in a pool of blood at Saint Macarius ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login Egypt is revered as the home of the famous Desert Ascetics, who first embraced a monastic life and established homosocial communities on ...

Three Egyptian Coptic monks have been "brutally killed" inside a monastery in South Africa, the Church has said. Father Takla Moussa, Father Minah ava Marcus and Father Youstos ava Marcus were ...

and Monk Mina Ava Markos. Relevant agencies are investigating the incident, the statement noted, adding that the Egyptian ambassador in Johannesburg is also following up on the situation.

The White Desert, known locally as Sahara el Beyda, is a mesmerizing natural wonder located in Egypt. It is situated in the ...

Saint Anthony, the Father of monks, was born in Egypt in 251 of pious parents who departed this life while he was yet ... Distributing to the poor all he had, and fleeing from all the turmoil of the ...

Saint Onuphrius flourished in the fourth century, first in the cenobium near Hermopolis of Thebes in Egypt, and later as a solitary in ... it was the will of God that Paphnutius return to his ...

Athanasius was born in 295 in Alexandria, Egypt, and served there most of ... As bishop, he took responsibility for the welfare of the desert monks and fathers. Due to the difficulties with ...

From his earliest youth, he was a monk in Palestine. Later he went to Egypt and stayed at several desert communities. He returned to Palestine about 333, was ordained, and became superior of a ...