Anyone familiar with Western European medieval history knows the strong influence monks and monasteries had on the daily life of people in those times. Today in the U.S. and Western Europe ...

Lets travel back in time and look at the life of one Medieval monk, who it turned out became a magician, an outlaw, a ...

Swedish archaeologists uncovered medieval monastery ruins in Derome, thanks to a history enthusiast's research of old maps ...

Monks' "gesture of gratitude" preserves Jerome farmland for generations to come. As the Monastery of the Ascension changes hands, the monks ensure its 400 acres of farm will stay farmland.

CAIRO -- Egypt says the sovereignty of a famous monastery is assured. Egypt's foreign minister on Wednesday told his Greek counterpart that the spiritual and religious value of the Saint Catherine ...

It's easy to lose oneself down the rabbit hole of medieval murder for hours, filtering the killings by year, choice of weapon, and location. Think of it as a kind of 14th-century version of Clue: It ...

The monks of Mepkin Abbey have unveiled a garden space honoring enslaved buried in unmarked graves on their South Carolina ...

Nestled in the Sinai mountains, the ancient St Catherine's Monastery has been the centre of recent tensions after an Egyptian ...

Egypt’s monks and monasteries have been making products and providing services for centuries as a way of embodying their faith and talents. At the stroke of nine on a Sunday morning as Mass ...

MEETEETSE -- Plans by a group of Roman Catholic hermit monks to erect an outsized monastery in northern Wyoming have pitted neighbor against neighbor and ignited debate with religious undertones.