Newsday

3 Egyptian Coptic church monks are killed in an attack at a monastery in South Africa

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Three Egyptian monks belonging to the Coptic Orthodox Church were fatally stabbed in an attack at a monastery in South Africa and a suspect has been arrested, police said ...
Newsday

2 men accused of murdering 3 Egyptian Coptic monks appear in a South African court

JOHANNESBURG — Two men accused of fatally stabbing three Egyptian monks belonging to the Coptic Orthodox Church this week appeared in a South African court Thursday and will remain in custody until ...
WBAL

Egypt prosecutors probing monk’s death in desert monastery

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 ...
Time

Monks in Egypt's Lawless Sinai Hope to Preserve an Ancient Library

Just as they have done for 17 centuries, the Greek Orthodox monks of St. Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s Sinai desert and the local Jabaliya Bedouins worked together to protect the monastery when the ...
Washington Examiner

Even in desert retreat, monks feel Egypt’s turmoil

ST. ANTHONY'S MONASTERY, Egypt (AP) -- 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 ...
Religion News Service

3 Egyptian Coptic church monks are killed in an attack at a monastery in South Africa

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The attacks in Egypt have subsided recently amid tighter security around Christian places of worship in the Muslim-majority country. CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Three ...