At a monastery in the Himalayan foothills, a teenage Buddhist lama blesses thousands. One by one, he taps bowed heads with a ritual vase and a peacock feather, sprinkling holy water for protection, ...

St. Gregory’s Abbey is transforming its empty dorms into housing for young adults aged out of foster care or lacking support ...

In the town of the same name in the Harz region stand the impressive ruins of the former Cistercian monastery Walkenried.

There are few places where history can be felt more powerfully than these pathways, walked by explorer, author and TV presenter Nicholas Crane ...

A Sinicized form of the religion has been preserved on the island, where daily life itself now sometimes seems like an ...

Efforts to restore the historic Sourp Magar monastery are actively underway as Armenian church representatives, heritage ...

Starting at the birthplace of Buddhism, a writer traces how its teachings spread across Asia, transforming the continent ...

Monasteries look like idyllic places where time stands still, and your soul enjoys complete peace. These stone buildings with ...

There have been many moments of silence in the years since Dasha Sakac unexpectedly lost her 22-year-old son Roman to a tragic accident. Those moments of silence are sometimes quiet, sometimes ...

Richly decorated skeleton preserved in a former monastery in southern Germany, at the former Benedictine abbey of Banz near ...

Found in Egypt, the papyrus confirms that Homer was everywhere in the ancient Mediterranean.