AMORGOS, Greece (AP) — For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas — or Father Spyridon, as he’s affectionately called — has ...

The monks curated a vast manuscript and book collection at the Library of Clairvaux Abbey, a site in Champagne, France, founded in 1115. The group of 12th- and 13th-century works expanded to more than ...

So church leaders, including those in evangelical or Pietist traditions, often have no training in spiritual formation. But ...

The monk who lives in the cliffs of a Greek tourist island - For more than 50 years, Father Spyridon has welcomed the ...

For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island monastery carved into a ...

The Russian Orthodox Church has a long history of close links to the Kremlin. It also has a key role in justifying the ...

"Sucralose activates the area in the brain that regulates hunger, and that activation, in turn, is linked to greater ratings ...

Myanmar continues to be hit by a string of aftershocks, the latest being a 5.1-magnitude earthquake that struck on Sunday ...

Laetere, a Latin word, is the command to rejoice, and it appears in the introduction to the mass traditionally read on the ...

The New York Times named it one of the top 52 destinations to visit in 2024. Then Austrian Airlines introduced its new ...

Nalanda contributed to the development and evolution of two major Mahayana Buddhist philosophies — Madhyamaka and Yogacara, Abhay K writes in his book, 'Nalanda: How it Changed the World'. Excerpts: ...

Without donations, Buddhist temples and monastic institutions could not exist. The lay community provides for monks and temples, in exchange for the spiritual currency of merit, which is believed ...