In Myanmar, when the military has a hard time conscripting enough residents into their ranks, they turn to monks for help.

The feds falsely accused Rev. Father Andrew Bushell of misusing the funds to buy $40,000 in Swiss watches and a $7,000 Goyard ...

And then, 150 years after his death, his name became mud. Evagrius’ writings were suppressed and destroyed — only to turn up ...

THESSALONIKI, Greece — An Orthodox Christian monk was hospitalized following a violent confrontation at a monastic sanctuary in northern Greece, authorities said Friday. The incident is tied to a ...

(JTA) — What did rabbis of late antiquity know about Christianity? To find out, an Israeli religion scholar turned to an Israeli zoologist who studies bats. Their strange-bedfellows paper on the topic ...

AMORGOS, Greece — For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island monastery carved into a seaside cliff that’s little changed since its founding more ...

In the low hills near the French town of Eveux, 15 miles from Lyon, workmen were busy last week putting the finishing touches to what a Paris paper called one of “the celebrated ruins of the 40th ...

A Chicago-area religious order of monks said this week they are ending their affiliation with a DuPage County Catholic high school, which in recent months hired a woman in a same-sex marriage to coach ...

Into a Buddhist temple on the outskirts of Seoul stumped Korea’s leathery old President Syngman Rhee for a quick look around. He peeked into the tile-roofed monk’s residence attached to the temple, ...

A method used to study Egyptian fruit bats help two scholars understand the connections between the Talmud and Christian writings. To find out, an Israeli religion scholar turned to an Israeli ...