Egypt applies for 8th world heritage site with Natrun Valley

Mon, 24 Feb 2020 - 08:00 GMT

For the first time in 17 years, Egypt has applied the Natrun Valley monastery complex to the UNESCO World Heritage List in hopes it becomes the eighth site of the country's.

St. Macarius’s Faltaous al-Makary hospitalized due to leg gangrene

Tue, 21 Aug 2018 - 06:04 GMT

Monk Faltaous al-Makary who is charged with murdering Bishop Epiphanius was hospitalized due to a degraded case of gangrene in the leg

Pope Tawadros II leads Easter Mass in Wadi el-Natrun

Mon, 17 Apr 2017 - 04:49 GMT

Pope Tawadros II, Head of Egypt's Orthodox Church, led Easter Mass on Monday in Bishop Bishoy’s Monastery at Wadi el-Natrun valley along with the church’s bishops.