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 ...

Of its 20 monasteries, one is Russian, one is Bulgarian and one is Serbian, and the presence of monks from other nations is not unusual. But it is in one monastery — Simonos Petra — that the greatest ...

A monk accused of sexually abusing two boys at a Catholic boarding school told a court his relationship with one pupil had been consensual. Michael James Callaghan, 71, is on trial for alleged ...

May 12 (Reuters) - California Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday urged localities to "take back the streets" from homeless encampments, proposing language for every city and county to use in a local ...

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 ...

In-N-Out Burger is expanding its footprint in California and beyond. The beloved burger joint recently added to its Grand Openings catalog three new locations in California: Indio, Modesto and ...

The monks at Wat Chak Daeng Temple in Bangkok have ditched their old robes for ones made out of plastic. They're on a mission to reach enlightenment and help the environment, and we'd say they're ...

Adrian Wooldridge is the global business columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. A former writer at the Economist, he is author of “The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World ...

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.

By James R. Hagerty Robert A.G. Monks, a lawyer and businessman from a prominent Massachusetts family who unsuccessfully ran for the U.S. Senate three times but found a calling in his 40s as an ...

Part of a human skull discovered on a Northern California beach more than 32 years ago was just identified as a woman who went missing five years earlier, authorities said. In 1993, a man found ...