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 ...

Time is running out to see Asia Society Museum's exhibition Golden Visions of Densatil: A Tibetan Buddhist Monastery, which closes this Sunday, May 18. Praised as "an enthralling show" by Holland ...

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 ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — Mount Athos, a verdant peninsula in northern Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more than 1,000 years. The all-male autonomous community ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls enclose ...

The monastery welcomes anyone who would like to visit — provided they are male. In a more than 1,000-year-old tradition, women are banned from the entire peninsula, which is deemed the Virgin ...

More than 160 volunteers were recruited to help share the heritage site with the public A 14th Century monastery turned visitor attraction in Coventry is set to reopen to the public. The Grade I ...

Then he eventually joined a monastery in Thailand. 'I had been in the Army since I was 17 and always struggled with confidence, but back then, drinking masked my social anxiety,' he recounted in ...

Two days after leaving the monastery, I was told I had to vacate my home. It all aligned effortlessly. Today, I live in the Middle East. I meditate daily for an hour. I host breathwork sessions ...

A notice from Clonard Monastery on Friday morning confirmed the death “of our beloved confrere,” Fr Michael Dempsey, who passed away peacefully at Lisburn’s Thompson House Hospital on Wednesday.

SAUK RAPIDS, Minn. — At Saint Clare’s Monastery in Sauk Rapids, a portrait of Pope Francis still graces the wall. But soon, that space will honor a new spiritual leader: Pope Leo XIV ...