WASHINGTON, July 13, 2026 /Standard Newswire/ — Coptic Solidarity today released a new report warning that the crisis surrounding St. Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula is not an isolated property dispute but the culmination of a decade-long process through which the Egyptian state has progressively challenged the centuries-old legal and institutional status of one of the world’s oldest continuously functioning Christian monasteries and one of UNESCO’s most emblematic World Heritage Sites.This press release summarizes the Coptic Solidarity report. It includes a link, so you can read the whole report if you like.[..]
I have been following this controversy for the last year or so and have posted on it here and here. As before, I have no insider information and I don't know what is really going on. But, whatever is happening, it should happen in the full light of the world's scrutiny.
For many other PaleoJudaica posts on Saint Catherine's Monastery and its important collection of manuscripts, start here (cf. here, and here and links) and follow the links.
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