St Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai in Egypt, is known for its sacred peace, but is now preparing to open up ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The Disciples followed the Last Supper with a hymn, and the early martyrs went singing into the arena to meet the lions; voices raised in praise and gladness have always been part of the Christian ...

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 ...