The Patron Saint of Kefalonia, Agios Gerasimos, has long been a source of comfort and spiritual strength for both locals and ...

"Cultural relics with higher protection levels tend to be better preserved, while those with lower grades often have ...

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Matthew McConaughey planned to become a monk. The 55-year-old actor has revealed he initially decided to devote his life to ...

Tamanrasset sits at the geographic heart of the desert. Linked to the north by 1,200 mostly paved miles of the Trans-Saharan Highway, it dominates a network of dirt tracks stretching into Mali, Niger, ...

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

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Vows of silence and humanist beliefs led European clerics to create new communication methods for the deaf 500 years ago. Charles-Michel de L'Épée teaching the hearing impaired in his Paris institute.