Monks are individuals devoted to religious servitude, and they are not specific to any one religion. Here are the abbeys and ...

The peace-promoting trek has drawn massive crowds who come to witness the historic event and offer their support.

A group of Buddhist monks and their rescue dog are striding single file down country roads and highways across the South, ...

In the low hills near the French town of Eveux, 15 miles from Lyon, workmen were busy last week putting the finishing touches to what a Paris paper called one of “the celebrated ruins of the 40th ...

The Religious Life may be defined as a method of serving God in which men or women consecrate to Him their life and labour under the perpetual vows of Poverty, Chastity and Obedience. . . . From ...

The Buddhist monks who are taking part in a 120+ day Walk for Peace across part of the United States have changed their route ...

(JTA) — What did rabbis of late antiquity know about Christianity? To find out, an Israeli religion scholar turned to an Israeli zoologist who studies bats. Their strange-bedfellows paper on the topic ...

AMORGOS, Greece — For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island monastery carved into a seaside cliff that’s little changed since its founding more ...

Lessons on intentional living from the modern monastic movement. The most tasteful invitation to contemplative prayer I have ever experienced was in a garden next to a charming British mansion. Along ...

(Reuters) -Human rights activists accused Communist-run Vietnam of infringing on freedom of religion after a court handed jail sentences this week to five ethnically Khmer Buddhist monks and four ...