"He's really old." That was Beate's first thought when she saw Ulrich Heinen, a Franciscan monk, for the first time - and she remembers that till this day. But at 65 at the time, it was not like she ...

Andrew Jotischky’s new book is a history of monastic life from early Christianity - Alamy In seventh-century Emesa, Syria, a man walked through town tugging a dead dog on the end of a rope. He ...

More than 20,000 people led by Buddhist monks have staged the biggest demonstration against Burma’s military regime in almost 20 years. For the first time since the protests began last month, Buddhist ...

Hiding among the fish barrels, Katharina von Bora must have realized she would have a remarkable life. A nun dissatisfied with cloistered life, she wrote to Martin Luther, asking for help escaping ...

From the monastery’s courtyard to the cricket crease, they proved that spirituality and sports can go hand in hand. Some one hundred monks and nuns ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Jesus prayed among the olive trees in the garden of Gethsemane on his last night before the crucifixion, according to the Gospel. Two millennia later, the mostly Catholic monks and ...

~ Some temples have introduced cafes, art galleries and other innovations to reach out to young people. TOKYO -- Japanese monks and nuns hit the catwalk in Tokyo on Saturday in a bid to spread ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Come October, monks and nuns are busy harvesting olives at the Mount of Olives and the Gethsemane garden — where, according to the Gospel, Jesus spent the last night before being ...