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 ...

Russian forces have recaptured a monastery in the Kursk region of Russia, where Ukrainian troops had been holed up. Quoting a security source, the TASS news agency said Russian forces have ...

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 ...

In beautiful Lake Ladoga, the largest in the formerly Finnish territory of Karelia, is the Athos of the North—the Valaam Monastery of the Transfiguration of the Savior. “>Valaam, in honor of the feast ...

The Carmelite nuns have left their home at a Christoval monastery after 35 years. "For decades, the Carmelite sisters have carried out a contemplative life of prayer and work at Our Lady of Grace ...

A Buddhist monastery in Thailand is under investigation after authorities discovered more than 40 bodies on site which were allegedly used for meditation practices, police said Sunday. Forty-one ...

Sister Stephanie Schmidt had a hunch about what her fellow nuns would discuss over dinner at their Erie, Pennsylvania, monastery on Wednesday night. The day before, a Republican operative in the ...

Former Russian footballer Timur Osmolovsky was killed in a Ukrainian drone strike while fighting in Ukraine on Sept 25, according to a report from the Valaam Monastery's farming community, where he ...

If its ancient walls could talk, Sümela Monastery in eastern Turkey would have quite a few stories to tell. Since its founding in the 4th-century CE by some of the earliest Christians to arrive ...

As Pope Francis prepares to visit Indonesia, the founding superior of a monastery in Java shares what life is like for Catholics in a majority-Muslim country. When Sister Martha Driscoll and ...

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FILE - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko holds a candle while visiting the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Valaam monastery with Russian President Vladimir Putin, on Valaam Island in Ladoga Lake in ...