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

Three monks belonging to Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church were killed in an attack on Tuesday at a monastery in South Africa. The attack occurred at the Saint Mark the Apostle and Saint Samuel the ...

KYI BUI KHAW, Myanmar -- The saffron-robed monks who spearheaded a bloody uprising last fall against Myanmar's military rulers are back on the front lines, this time providing food, shelter and ...

After 18 months of traveling across the United States, a group of Tibetan Buddhist monks are making their way to North County.

The seven monks have been clearing brush from around the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center and running a sprinkler system dubbed "Dharma rain," which helps keep a layer of moister around the buildings, ...

FILE - Monks carry baskets of supplies to the Simonopetra, or Simonos Petra Monastery, home of the all-male autonomous community of Agion Oros, or Holy Mountain, on the peninsula of Mount Athos in ...

Monks from the famed Gaden Shartse Monastery in India will be making a return to the Roaring Fork Valley from May 13-19 for a week of family-friendly “compassionate activities,” according to a news ...

CAMBRIDGE, New York (AP) — After he and his fellow monks sang morning prayers in their church nestled in a forest, Brother Luke walked back to his residence to be greeted by a different kind of choir.

The rash of coronavirus cases at Cistercian Abbey Our Lady of Dallas has upended life for the 19 monks living at the Irving monastery. The brothers' vows require them to eat, live, pray and even be ...

A group of firefighting monks was ready to defend a Buddhist monastery being threatened Wednesday by a wildfire burning in the rugged central coast mountains south of Big Sur. The seven monks have ...

Brother Luke, an Orthodox Christian monk, holds his 10-week-old German shepherd Pyrena on the grounds of the New Skete monastery, where he directs the dog breeding program that has provided both ...

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