A rectangle and the word “Klosterkullen,” which translates to “monastery hill,” was drawn in an area that today is an empty field in Derome, according to a May 13 news release from the ...

But it is in one monastery — Simonos Petra — that the greatest range of nationalities reside. Abbot of Simonos Petra since 2000, Eliseos has been living in the monastery since 1973.

Time is running out to see Asia Society Museum's exhibition Golden Visions of Densatil: A Tibetan Buddhist Monastery, which closes this Sunday, May 18. Praised as "an enthralling show" by Holland ...

Simonos Petra, a monastery on Mount Athos, embraces monks from diverse backgrounds, transcending national boundaries within the Orthodox Christian faith. This ecumenical spirit, rooted in the ...

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The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls enclose a diverse Christian ...

On Sunday afternoon, two Filipino nuns sat in silence, praying for us all. The quiet of the afternoon service at Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Antigonish County was only broken by the baritone of ...

Then he eventually joined a monastery in Thailand. 'I had been in the Army since I was 17 and always struggled with confidence, but back then, drinking masked my social anxiety,' he recounted in ...

A notice from Clonard Monastery on Friday morning confirmed the death “of our beloved confrere,” Fr Michael Dempsey, who passed away peacefully at Lisburn’s Thompson House Hospital on Wednesday.

I ran out of my office and shouted, 'White smoke! White smoke!' and immediately heard the echo through the monastery," said Father Linton. Father Linton saying he was bombarded with texts and ...