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

The Church of the East was already present among various Mongol tribes when Kublai Khan (1260–1294) conquered China. Though ...

Fr. Jens Petzold, a Swiss priest based in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq, speaks to Vatican News about his work ...

A Ukrainian delegation to the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington will make the case that Russia threatens the religious ...

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

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

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.

(CP) The discovery of an ancient Christian monastery on an island in the United Arab Emirates purportedly might shine a light on the faith's early history before the rise of Islam in the region. As ...

PHOENIX — The head of the House Appropriations Committee warns there won’t be any new money granted to the Teachers Academy unless the state allows students at Christian universities to ...

(AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov) People plunge in icy water to celebrate the Orthodox Epiphany near the St. Serafimovsky Monastery on Russian Island in Russian far east port Vladivostok, Russia, Sunday, Jan ...