The first discovery of a woman’s remains at a Byzantine monastery challenges long-held beliefs about early Christian ...

From the Buddhist traditions of Asia to the Christian traditions of Europe and the Near East, these ten isolated monasteries are among the world’s most gravity-defying spiritual sites.

As a girl, Athanasopoulou spent every summer in Chora, the island’s preserved, whitewashed village, baked into a hill and ...

Greek monks were trying to build monasteries in places that were hidden or difficult to access in order to protect them from ...

Monastic Burial Site in Sudan Revealed Rare Christian Tattoo on the Bones of a Mummified Nubian The medieval monastic site of ...

Such was their influence in Church history, through their evangelization efforts, that Pope John Paul II named the two ...

MALVERN − During Lent, St. Francis Xavier Church at 125 S. Carroll St. will host fried and baked fish dinners and spaghetti dinners from 4:30 to 7 p.m. on Feb. 14 and 21; March 7, 14, 21 and 28; and ...

Small entities might once again need to relearn how to hedge between great powers. One forgotten highborn woman from history provides some ancient realist lessons.

COMMENTARY: American policy-makers should take this pathology into account when pondering whatever negotiations, or other ...

In a centuries-old monastery on a rocky hill north of Damascus, friends of missing Italian priest Paolo Dall'Oglio carry on his legacy, hopeful Bashar al-Assad's ouster might help reveal the Jesuit's ...