Romania’s Bucovina region (northeastern Romania) features substantial collection of monasteries with religious frescoes ...

It may be the ultimate relaxation break: beautiful medieval buildings, smiling hosts and a spot of gentle gardening to pass the time. But the 5am prayers could be a nasty jolt. Monasteries and ...

From cliffside monasteries and medieval centers of learning to roadside shrines, kitchens, and Easter traditions, Armenia ...

Monasteries seem the very antithesis of digital frenzy. Yet, a recent study by the Department of Sociology and the University Research Priority Program (URPP) Digital Religion(s) at the University of ...

Father Jad meets me at a pastry shop in Byblos, a storied city on the Lebanese Mediterranean coast that's one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world. The ancient Greeks imported ...

In Washington last week, Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle of Washington solemnly carried out one of the rarer ceremonies of the Roman Catholic Church: the formal blessing of a new abbot. He gave his ...

A monk's life is still a simple one of prayer and austerity, yet many monasteries have moved online for business, communication and even headhunting purposes. "All the Trappist houses in America are ...

For almost 1,000 years, the English church grew up around its monasteries—a network of institutions that instructed the living, cared for the dying and prayed for the dead. Monasteries were locations ...

Why do some organizations survive across the centuries while others founder when faced with technological disruption? A new study by the University of Zurich shows that historically developed monastic ...

When you're trying to connect with your god, it helps to find some peace and quiet, if you can. But that was, indeed, no such problem for the architects of these impossibly built monasteries.

The monastic community founded by St Millán in the mid-6th century became a place of pilgrimage. A fine Romanesque church built in honour of the holy man still stands at the site of Suso. It was here ...