It isn't every day that Catholic monks find themselves on the pop charts. Yet that's what happened to the monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz, a 12th-century Cistercian monastery near Vienna, whose CD of ...

Tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. Tuesday for "Sacred Music Sacred Dance," a performance by Tibetan monks being held in conjunction with the visit in September to UB of His Holiness the Dali Lama.

Founded in the 4th century, Sümela is a gravity-defying marvel, hanging nearly 1,000 feet over a wooded valley in Turkey, ...

GROTTAFERRATA, Italy, Nov 30 (Reuters) - In an ancient monastery behind huge medieval battlements in a hilltop town just south of Rome, 10 monks are striving to keep alive a 1,600-year-old spiritual ...

Come October, monks and nuns are busy harvesting olives at the Mount of Olives and the Gethsemane garden — where the Gospel ...

LONDON (Reuters) - It has been a remarkable journey for the 'singing nuns' of Drapchi prison, four of whom are in Britain to raise awareness of the Tibetan plight, just as the world's attention is ...