EAGLE HARBOR — His day begins in the dead of night, in solitude and darkness. Father Basil is the first monk out of bed at the monastery, usually by 3 in the morning, so early the only ones awake are ...

For nearly seventy years, St. Benedict’s Monastery has been home to a community of Trappist monks. They designed and constructed the brick complex outside Aspen themselves in the 1950s, creating a ...

Greek forward Vangelis Zougris is in the the NCAA transfer portal after one season with Pat Kelsey's Louisville Cardinals. The 6-foot-8 Greek forward averaged only 2.6 points and 2.4 rebounds across ...

Egypt began to transition to Christianity shortly after the turn of the first century C.E., and by the fifth century, it was a hub of Coptic art and culture. A Coptic monastery discovered at the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For nearly 70 years, people from around the world visited St. Benedict’s Monastery in Old Snowmass, a place many called “a sanctuary,” “a sacred valley” and ...

From cliff-carved chapels to highland fortresses, these UNESCO-recognized sites bring travelers face to face with 17 centuries of ritual and craftsmanship. The Tatev Monastery is just one of five ...

Thirteen miles down an unmarked dirt road quietly sits the Monastery of Christ in the Desert, along the Chama River in Northern New Mexico. The monastery is home to 15 monks, some livestock, and a ...

The end of an era has finally come, as Old Snowmass’ St. Benedict’s Monastery, owned since 1956 by Trappist monks, sold. The $120 million sale was recorded Monday in a Special Warranty Deed through ...

The monks who laid the first bricks of St. Benedict’s Monastery in Old Snowmass built their chapel and cloisters in the 1950s to stand through centuries of Catholic worship and prayer. The ones who ...

The Pancretan Association of Melbourne held its annual dinner dance in honour of the heroic struggles of the island’s people – from the Holocaust of the Holy Monastery of Arkadi to its long-awaited ...

A flock of cloistered nuns escaped their nearly 400-year-old Italian monastery after a devastating fire broke out late Saturday evening, swallowing up troves of priceless artifacts. The 21 nuns living ...

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 ...