ST. ANTHONY'S MONASTERY, Egypt – In a cave here high in the desert mountains of eastern Egypt, the man said to be the father of monasticism took refuge from the temptations of the world some 17 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This undated photo released by the Coptic Orthodox Church, shows Coptic monk Zeinoun al-Maqari, in Egypt. Egypt's Coptic church ...

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CAIRO (AP) — It reads like a murder mystery set in an exotic locale: an abbot found dead in a desert monastery; a monk defrocked and arrested; another held by police and hospitalized after trying to ...

CAIRO (AP) — In an incident that brought the woes of one of the world's oldest churches back under the spotlight, Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church said on Wednesday that prosecutors are investigating ...

Deir Mar Moussa Al-Habashi (St Moses the Ethiopian) is a seventh century monastery perched atop a barren, rocky hill 100 kilometres north of the Syria capital Damascus near the desert in the Nabk area ...

Inspiration can come from unlikely places. For composer Robert Kyr, the silence of a desert monastery is key to the radiant music on his new disc of recent choral works performed by the vocal ensemble ...

Edward Abbey (1927-1989) was a desert rat, a chronic contrarian, a serial government employee with a penchant for anarchy. He made his reputation by exploring Arches National Park in Utah in the ...

CAIRO – Egypt's Coptic Church said Wednesday that prosecutors are investigating the death of a monk who had until recently served in a monastery northwest of Cairo where the abbot was killed in July, ...