Further reading: Conclave explained: A simple guide to the papal election A former president of Caritas Korea and a strong defender of the poor, You is seen in Rome as closely aligned with Francis ...

At the Dunes Course at La Vie Est Belle golf club, 90 minutes out of Seoul, Kaewkanjana engaged in a thrilling showdown with his countryman Poom Saksansin (73). But a one-under-par 70 gave Kaewkanjana ...

Eight decades after the partition of the Korean peninsula, the Catholic Church in South Korea remains one of the few actors ...

Zooming over her head were nearly a dozen vibrant green Monk Parakeets. Bewildered, Uehling was sure her eyes were playing tricks on her. "A bunch of parrots was the last thing I expected to see ...

SEOGWIPO, South Korea (Reuters) -South Korea's Minister of Trade and Industry Ahn Duk-geun said on Friday that Seoul would try to reach a deal with Washington on tariffs by the July deadline ...

Simonos Petra, a monastery on Mount Athos, embraces monks from diverse backgrounds, transcending national boundaries within the Orthodox Christian faith. This ecumenical spirit, rooted in the ...

Bryson DeChambeau admitted he felt "nervous" as he claimed victory at LIV Golf Korea for his first title since winning the US Open last summer. The American, who collapsed from second place on ...

Of its 20 monasteries, one is Russian, one is Bulgarian and one is Serbian, and the presence of monks from other nations is not unusual.

A monk accused of sexually abusing two boys at a Catholic boarding school told a court his relationship with one pupil had been consensual. Michael James Callaghan, 71, is on trial for alleged ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The Monastery of Simonos Petra clings almost impossibly to a sheer cliff above the Aegean Sea in northern Greece. Also known as Simonopetra or Simon’s Rock, the Christian ...

Of its 20 monasteries, one is Russian, one is Bulgarian and one is Serbian, and the presence of monks from other nations is not unusual. But it is in one monastery — Simonos Petra — that the ...

More than 160 volunteers were recruited to help share the heritage site with the public A 14th Century monastery turned ... is one of only nine former Carthusian monasteries.