Class divides on food are hard to miss during the holy month of Ramadan even with growing charitable efforts to provide ...

It was built around the area where the Holy Family remained just over six months Their time as spent mainly in cave ... The whole area-the Monastery and its surroundings - is redolent of the Coptic ...

After their short, but all-too-felt, stay in Old Cairo, the Holy Family moved in a southerly direction, reaching the modern Cairo suburb of Maadi which, in earliest Pharaonic times was an outlying ...

A girl plays at a table prepared for free breakfast at Ezbet Hamada in Cairo's El Matareya district during a mass breakfast, ...

The start of the Muslim holy fasting month has always been a time of great festivity in Egypt, for both rulers and the ruled.

During Ramadan, the spirit of the holy month, a feeling of generosity, and a strong sense of community spread across Egypt. Acts of charity become a cornerstone of Egyptians’ daily life during ...

Designed by the Greek inventor Heron, this coin-operated holy water dispenser was used in Egyptian temples to dispense water for ritual washings. Worshippers would place a coin into the machine and ...

During the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Muslims observing the fast will refrain from eating and drinking from dawn to dusk ...