There is nothing unusual about turning a corner in West Virginia's maze of rough mountain roads and seeing churches with ...

I’ve just been made aware of a sad situation that has been poignantly tracked in an online diary. There’s no political point to be made here, only a striking human story about religious life to be ...

The rich, secretive and centuries-old tradition of Trappist monastery brewing gets an American craft-beer makeover Saturday in the bucolic, rolling hills of central Massachusetts. Spencer Trappist ...

For many observers, the Dalai Lama's choice of the director of the Tibet Center in New York to be the new abbot of Rato Monastery in southern India is surprising, given the background of this ...

WILLIAMSTON - The chanting of sacred songs fills a home, interrupted occasionally by the creak of wooden floors or the trill of wind chimes on the front porch. The smell of incense in the small chapel ...

Benedictine Monastery Ross Rulney, center, owner of the Benedictine Monastery, talks with Denice Blake, second from right, Corky Poster, far right, and Alison Miller, during an open public tour of the ...

NEW YORK (RNS) The Dalai Lama has given Nicholas Vreeland, director of The Tibet Center in New York, a daunting new assignment. On July 6, Vreeland will be enthroned as the new abbot of Rato Monastery ...

The chanting of sacred songs fills a home, interrupted occasionally by the creak of wooden floors or the trill of wind chimes on the front porch. The smell of incense in the small chapel mixes with an ...