05/10/2013
Ancient monastery has few visitors amid Sinai unrest, but Bedouin neighbors protect it
pST. CATHERINE?S MONASTERY, Egypt ? Thousands of years of tradition say the monastery built here marks the spot where Moses fell down on his knees before a burning bush and talked to God. Hidden high in the desert mountains, guarded for centuries by scholar monks and Bedouin tribesmen, this fortress sanctuary was once as remote as any place on Earth could be./pa href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/an-ancient-monastery-in-sinai-is-isolated-again/2013/10/04/ef426cc8-2ad4-11e3-b141-298f46539716_story.html?wprss=rss_world"Read full article #62;#62;/aimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636708/s/32125e4b/sc/10/mf.gif' border='0'/br clear='all'/div class='mf-viral'table border='0'trtd valign='middle'a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/twitter/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fmiddle_east%2Fan-ancient-monastery-in-sinai-is-isolated-again%2F2013%2F10%2F04%2Fef426cc8-2ad4-11e3-b141-298f46539716_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Ancient+monastery+has+few+visitors+amid+Sinai+unrest%2C+but+Bedouin+neighbors+protect+it" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/twitter.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/facebook/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fmiddle_east%2Fan-ancient-monastery-in-sinai-is-isolated-again%2F2013%2F10%2F04%2Fef426cc8-2ad4-11e3-b141-298f46539716_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Ancient+monastery+has+few+visitors+amid+Sinai+unrest%2C+but+Bedouin+neighbors+protect+it" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/facebook.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/linkedin/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fmiddle_east%2Fan-ancient-monastery-in-sinai-is-isolated-again%2F2013%2F10%2F04%2Fef426cc8-2ad4-11e3-b141-298f46539716_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Ancient+monastery+has+few+visitors+amid+Sinai+unrest%2C+but+Bedouin+neighbors+protect+it" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/linkedin.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/gplus/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fmiddle_east%2Fan-ancient-monastery-in-sinai-is-isolated-again%2F2013%2F10%2F04%2Fef426cc8-2ad4-11e3-b141-298f46539716_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Ancient+monastery+has+few+visitors+amid+Sinai+unrest%2C+but+Bedouin+neighbors+protect+it" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/googleplus.png" border="0" //anbsp;a href="http://share.feedsportal.com/share/email/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fworld%2Fmiddle_east%2Fan-ancient-monastery-in-sinai-is-isolated-again%2F2013%2F10%2F04%2Fef426cc8-2ad4-11e3-b141-298f46539716_story.html%3Fwprss%3Drss_worldt=Ancient+monastery+has+few+visitors+amid+Sinai+unrest%2C+but+Bedouin+neighbors+protect+it" target="_blank"img src="http://res3.feedsportal.com/social/email.png" border="0" //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/176965257675/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/32125e4b/sc/10/rc/1/rc.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/176965257675/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/32125e4b/sc/10/rc/1/rc.img" border="0"//abr/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/176965257675/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/32125e4b/sc/10/rc/2/rc.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/176965257675/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/32125e4b/sc/10/rc/2/rc.img" border="0"//abr/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/176965257675/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/32125e4b/sc/10/rc/3/rc.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/176965257675/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/32125e4b/sc/10/rc/3/rc.img" border="0"//abr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/176965257675/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/32125e4b/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/176965257675/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/32125e4b/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/176965257675/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/32125e4b/a2t.img" border="0"/
