A guide to some of our favorite handmade gifts to give and receive from religious communities and monasteries.

In 1947, 32 Trappist monks seeking refuge after World War II settled in the Ogden Valley just outside of Huntsville. Arriving ...

The brutal attack took place after a man broke into the monastery and declared 'I am Jesus Christ and I am going to kill the ...

Initial reports on Saturday indicated that a Catholic Bishop had been killed ... as well as a glass bottle, to attack monks at the monastery. However, emergency services have since confirmed ...

Living in one of the peninsula's 20 monasteries, dozen cloisters, or hundreds of cells, the monks are detached even from each other, reserving most of their time for prayer and solitude.

Twenty years ago, an order of Catholic monks bought a small Orkney island ... which means Priests' Island of Stronsay. The original monastery was abandoned in the 16th Century - but for the ...

YEKATERINBURG, April 14. /TASS/. Bailiffs have started to evict all inhabitants of the Sredneuralsk Women’s Monastery, seized by supporters of excommunicated schemamonk Sergiy (Nikolai Romanov ...