Some of the historic trees around Tucson’s Benedictine Monastery will live on despite plans to flip the iconic site into a luxury apartment complex. A private foundation has stepped up to help ...

Beijing - Soldiers and police on Tuesday surrounded a monastery in southwest China where a Tibetan monk set himself on fire and died. The security forces cut off power, water and food to around 100 ...

MANILA, Philippines — Veteran actress Alicia Alonzo has found peace living as a layperson in a Pampanga monastery, marking the end of a showbiz career that began in the late 1960s.

Wayama said his heart aches for more than just the monastery. There are a lot of buildings that were destroyed here that have been around for more than 100 years. "It makes me sad to see damages ...

The Batalha Monastery, a Dominican convent, still stands to commemorate the victory of the Portuguese over the Castilians at the Battle of Aljubarrota in 1385. This explains its official name ...

Located just an hour and a half’s drive from Lisbon, Portugal, the Monastery of Alcobaça is one of Europe’s finest examples of the Cistercian style and a pioneer of Gothic design in the Iberian ...

Faithfuls and Traitors gathered together at the gothic-looking Monastery of Alcobaça in central Portugal. The impressive UNESCO World Heritage Site, which features a church built in the Middle ...

Founded in 1153, the Monastery of Alcobaça, located around 100 miles south of Lisbon, is home to an extraordinary collection of unique terracotta sculptures dating from the 1600s and 1700s.

The Moon has been added to the World Monuments Watch (WMW) list of 25 endangered sites for 2025, alongside Gaza’s cultural heritage and terracotta sculptures in a Portuguese monastery.