An ancient Christian monastic complex was recently discovered in Egypt's Sohag Governorate. The finds reveal the details of ...

The comet the world knows as Halley’s Comet may owe its “first to spot the pattern” credit to someone far earlier than Edmond Halley: an 11th-century English monk. New interdisciplinary research ...

A Greek Orthodox monk on Mount Athos, the center of Orthodox monasticism, died at the age of 82 without ever seeing a woman.

Archaeologists have discovered an ancient monastery in Scotland that is thought to have been lost for centuries. The exact location of the so-called Monastery of Deer has long been one of the biggest ...

Norway’s only male contemplative community of the Cistercian Trappist order consecrated its new church in December, inaugurating a brand-new monastery in the Trondheim Fjord, an inlet of the Norwegian ...

Just as they have done for 17 centuries, the Greek Orthodox monks of St. Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s Sinai desert and the local Jabaliya Bedouins worked together to protect the monastery when the ...

Casamari Abbey in Italy is a gem of Cistercian-Gothic art, whose stones have been imbued with the prayers of monks over the centuries. Here, the monks have dedicated their lives to the vows of ...

In a land where the echoes of pharaohs still haunt the ruins, a different kind of spiritual legacy is now emerging from beneath the ground—one that belonged to a humble community devoted not to ...

An ancient monk’s surprising role in bringing justice and healing to his neighbors. “Those too busy in self-centered devotions to care for others.” “My students think they know what motivated the ...