Founded in the 4th century, Sümela is a gravity-defying marvel, hanging nearly 1,000 feet over a wooded valley in Turkey, ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls enclose a ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls enclose ...

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

It’s hard to be a devotee of prayer and silence when parties with thumping music gather outside your walls. By Kaya Laterman The 10 Carmelite nuns of Cypress Hills, cloistered in Brooklyn for almost ...

Pluscarden Abbey has always intrigued me. Just 15 minutes from my home in Elgin, it is Britain’s only medieval monastery ...

It started when I was assigned a story to write about a religious sister professing her final vows. Within the year, I'd returned to the monastery to work on a writing project demanding more mental ...

TLC’s latest entry into the reality ring had me skeptical at the first mention. But after reading the synopses for the reality show The Monastery, I think this could be an interesting show. The ...

More than 20 nuns were evacuated from a historic monastery in Italy after the building went up in flames. A huge fire tore ...