From the Buddhist traditions of Asia to the Christian traditions of Europe and the Near East, these ten isolated monasteries ...

The Greek Foreign Minister visits his counterpart in Cairo to express his discontent over the ruling that grants Egypt the rights to the lands of this monastery, run by the Orthodox Church. A ...

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 ...

Centuries-old monasteries have been damaged by an ongoing series of earthquakes in a secluded monastic community in northern Greece. A magnitude 5.3 quake struck the Mount Athos peninsula on June ...

Cairo (AsiaNews) – The Central Committee of the World Council of Churches (WCC) released a statement at the end of a meeting ...

Clinging to a Greek cliff, this monastery welcomes people from around the world. No women allowed The monastery is one of 20 in the autonomous all-male monastic community of Mount Athos, known in ...

Except for the scattered handful of Carthusian houses, all Latin-rite monasteries in the world follow—with varying degrees of severity—the rule of conduct that St. Benedict of Nursia wrote ...

Pocket moments of peace at these monasteries and Buddhist temples in Singapore — where zen courtyards and meditative sessions ...

Ten Isolated, Gravity-Defying Monasteries You Can Visit Around the World Monks have been seeking spiritual enlightenment at these sites on steep cliffs, inside caves and atop an extinct volcano ...

The Monastery of Simonos Petra, also known as Simonopetra — or Simon’s Rock — transcends country-based branches of the Christian faith, embracing monks from across the world, ...

One of the oldest non-Greek monks in the monastery is Father Makarios. The Frenchman’s spiritual quest began in May 1968, when as a young man he experienced first-hand the social uprising sparked by ...

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 ...