KYI BUI KHAW, Myanmar -- The saffron-robed monks who spearheaded a bloody uprising last fall against Myanmar's military rulers are back on the front lines, this time providing food, shelter and ...
BETHLEHEM, West Bank – The nuns of "Le Creche," the only orphanage in Bethlehem, have raised generations of children in this biblical town. But only four aging nuns remain, down from a dozen 30 years ...
Your gift is in the giving, the old holiday nostrum goes. But you also can get a feel-good gift in the buying, especially if you tap the monasteries, convents and hermitages scattered around the world ...
BETHLEHEM, West BankBETHLEHEM, West Bank — The nuns of “Le Creche,” the only orphanage in Bethlehem, have raised generations of children in this biblical town. But only four aging nuns remain, down ...
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Under growing pressure from Thailand's military government, and their own religious bodies, Buddhist monks have launched a fresh round of reforms in recent weeks to clean up ...
MEETEETSE, Wyo.MEETEETSE, Wyo. — Plans by a group of Roman Catholic hermit monks to erect an outsized monastery in northern Wyoming have pitted neighbor against neighbor and aroused debate with ...
Amita Buddhist Nursing Hospital, a specialized nursing hospital for monks of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism, will open on the 3rd of next month in Chuksan-myeon, Ansan-si, Gyeonggi-do. According ...
A Chicago-area religious order of monks said this week they are ending their affiliation with a DuPage County Catholic high school, which in recent months hired a woman in a same-sex marriage to coach ...
The monks at Assumption Abbey in Ava, Mo., were making concrete blocks when Father Cyprian Harrison joined the order in 1965. As demand for the blocks waned, the order explored other options to ...
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