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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...