Founded in the 4th century, Sümela is a gravity-defying marvel, hanging nearly 1,000 feet over a wooded valley in Turkey, that today attracts thousands of religious pilgrims.

The retirement of an 88-year-old man might not seem like news, but one central Virginia community is celebrating him and the ...

Along the banks of the Indus, Alchi Monastery stands as a living repository of Buddhist art and history, its ancient murals ...

Compared to the hard life of a medieval peasant the life of a monk must have been a doddle. Right? Well, no not really.

A 17th-century monastery in northern Italy where recently canonized St. Carlo Acutis received his first Communion was in ...

Behind the looms of a workshop in the heart of Addis Ababa, dozens of weavers deftly repeat the same motions to craft traditional dresses -- a centuries-old skill now threatened by Ethiopia's economic ...

Youth gathered in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the country's first For the Strength of Youth conference where they learned how ...

For 141 years, the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration prayed around the clock in front of the Blessed Sacrament at St.