A series of state-level meetings between Greece and Egypt appears to have calmed the long-running dispute over St Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, with Greek and Egyptian ministers affirming that the ...

After 49 years, the Madisonville Gar Rodeo in South Louisiana has become a staple event for alligator gar fishermen, along with local families and communities. This year’s rodeo had a huge turnout, ...

Renri has been playing the Pokemon series as far back as Ruby/Sapphire and as such, her primary topics for strategy guides and lists usually involve Pokemon. She's also an avid Legend of Zelda fan, ...

ARLINGTON — The Carmelite nuns in Arlington have transferred ownership of their expansive wooded monastery to a new foundation amid an ongoing dispute with the Catholic Bishop of Fort Worth. The ...

As Pope Francis prepares to visit Indonesia, the founding superior of a monastery in Java shares what life is like for Catholics in a majority-Muslim country. When Sister Martha Driscoll and nine ...

HOLLADAY, Utah — On eight acres of land in Holladay sits the Carmel of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Monastery, a little-known sanctuary for the nuns who live and worship there. It's where just 11 ...

Adapted from Chasing Giants: In Search of the World’s Largest Freshwater Fish by Zeb Hogan and Stefan Lovgren. Copyright © 2023 by University of Nevada Press. All ...

This is the first of a series of interviews with Tibetan refugees who have recently escaped from occupied-Tibet, and arrived India in early 2023. Their testimonies give insight into a life without ...

After 66 years, the St Benedict’s Monastery in Old Snowmass will begin closing this summer, according to a message on its website. The message, from Dom Damian Carr: “As many of you know, our monastic ...

For 90 years the Monastery of the Angels was home to a cloistered community of Dominican nuns who lived, prayed and baked their famous pumpkin bread on the rambling four-acre property tucked into a ...

Tibetan buddhist monks and nuns walking at the pagodas in Yarchen Gar Monastery in Sichuan, China A Bhutanese cat in Thimphu, Bhutan A Bhutanese cat at the Buddhist temple in Thimphu, Bhutan buddhist ...

Tibetan buddhist monks and nuns walking at the pagodas in Yarchen Gar Monastery in Sichuan, China Buddhist prayer turning prayer wheel Someone turning prayer wheel at the Thangthong Dewachen Nunnery ...