The Religious Life may be defined as a method of serving God in which men or women consecrate to Him their life and labour under the perpetual vows of Poverty, Chastity and Obedience. . . . From ...

Will Keller has been selling products made by nuns and monks for 10 years through his Cleveland mail-order company, Monastery Greetings. Among the religious communities Keller’s company represents are ...

Franciscan monks in charge of churches in the Holy Land are struggling to keep pilgrimage sites open for Christians stuck amid the ongoing conflict. The Custody of the Holy Land, the Catholic priory ...

COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. (AP) — An alleged Islamic extremist is the first person to ever be charged with war crimes for destroying religious and cultural monuments. Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi is accused of ...

JERUSALEM (AP) - November 9, 2008 The clash between Armenian and Greek Orthodox monks broke out in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, revered as the site of Jesus' crucifixion, burial and resurrection.

After working in divinity school bookstores for 15 years, Will Keller found his calling as the owner of a mail-order business. One might call it a niche market - selling foods, books, religious ...

Brother Luke, an Orthodox Christian monk, holds his 10-week-old German shepherd Pyrena on the grounds of the New Skete monastery, where he directs the dog breeding program that has provided both ...

Two monastic orders in rural Kentucky, the Sisters of Loretto and Our Lady of Gethsemani, have made news recently for refusing to permit a gas company to install a pipeline across their property.