LATRUN — A few dozen Israeli volunteers knelt in the dirt on Wednesday, planting sapling vines one by one as the midday sun beat down. Toiling alongside them were two robed young men with shaved heads ...

Hiding among the fish barrels, Katharina von Bora must have realized she would have a remarkable life. A nun dissatisfied with cloistered life, she wrote to Martin Luther, asking for help escaping ...

A man with a history of posing as a Catholic monk has been charged with sexually assaulting a teenage boy he targeted in a central Minnesota church. Anthony Thomas Falco, 88, was charged in Stearns ...

It was gathered that despite their role as mediators in the Syrian conflict, priests continue to be targeted by Islamist groups According to International Christian Concern, Father Jacob Murad had ...

Catholic Monks and University of Nairobi’s Mean Machine have been promoted to the Kenya Cup. Monks defeated Shamas Foundation 9-5 to win their Kenya Rugby Union (KRU) Championships semi-final at the ...

In June 1969, a monk of the Berryville Monastery in Clarke County, Virginia, began his daily meditation. The Trappist monastery of Our Lady of the Holy Cross had recently made a major change. The ...

After 11 years, the Catholic Church in central Norway will have a bishop again. Fr. Erik Varden, a Cistercian monk and spiritual writer, will be consecrated a bishop at the Cathedral of St. Olav in ...