In 1990, excavations of an ancient monastery in the Negev Desert of southern Israel revealed a sprawling mosaic dating back ...

The Monastery of Christ in the Desert was founded there in 1964 and is home to a community of Benedictine monks. They spend their days in prayer, work, meditation — and music. For years ...

CHAMA RIVER CANYON, N.M. — Hidden in this canyon of crimson sandstone cliffs encompassed by miles of federally protected wilderness, the Monastery of Christ in the Desert seems like an ideal ...

An excavation report from the Israel Antiquities Authority reveals the discovery of a well-preserved Byzantine-period monastery and farmhouse at Naḥal Peḥar, within the modern settlement of ...

To get to this jumble, he has traveled from Washington to an isolated, fortress-like monastery in the middle of the Sinai Desert, home to the oldest continuously operating library on the planet.

the monastery gained the moniker the Monastery of the Tigers due to its isolated location out in the wilderness of Egypt's desert moonscape. It covers an area of about five acres of land ...

Fr Justin is helping to share online the historic manuscripts in an ancient Sinai monastery For a monk who lives in the Sinai desert in Egypt, in the world's oldest working monastery, Father ...

Here's a glimpse of five such monasteries where the journey is as fulfilling as the destination. Tawang Monastery is located ...

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 ...

The Wadi Qelt area of the Judean desert forms an oasis of sheer beauty and certainly ... They made the trip to St. George's Monastery, in a remote part of the West Bank, not because of the scenery but ...

For a monk who lives in the Sinai desert in Egypt, in the world's oldest working monastery, Father Justin replies to emails very speedily. It should come as no surprise: the Greek Orthodox monk is ...