Walking around the small, pedestrian-only island allows you to step back in time and discover the essence of Turkey through local cuisine and nature, away from the mass tourism of the cultural capital ...

News; Religion; St. Gertrude’s Monastery paves the way for a continued Benedictine future in small Idaho town May 22, 2023 Updated Mon., May 22, 2023 at 9:02 p.m.

At the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, on the site where Jesus is believed to have been crucified and resurrected, a centuries-long real estate spat tends to flare up at Orthodox Easter.

Iulia Coleasa, an 81-year-old who relies on her small plot for food, travelled 15 km in searing heat to a monastery in southern Romania on Sunday to join a service praying for rain.

MEETEETSE -- Plans by a group of Roman Catholic hermit monks to erect an outsized monastery in northern Wyoming have pitted neighbor against neighbor and ignited debate with religious undertones.

News; Idaho; St. Gertrude’s monastery paves the way for continued its future in a small Idaho town May 26, 2023 Updated Fri., May 26, 2023 at 5:41 p.m. Stone used to build the chapel at the ...

Despite the monastery’s sacred location, it has become a site of petty quarrels that occur on a near-annual basis, and sometimes even boil over into violence.