MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — A church bell sounds, the staccato thudding of mallet on plank summons monks to afternoon prayers, deep voices are raised in communal chant. And high in the great tower of ...

NEWPORT, Wash. (FāVS News) — By some they’ve been fondly called the “nuns from Newport.” For years, a group of women with clean-shaven heads wearing traditional Tibetan monastic red robes have been ...

For over a thousand years, monks living in remote monasteries have consistently outlived their contemporaries by decades, and their secret wasn’t just prayer and meditation. Hidden within monastery ...

SAINT-WANDRILLE, France — The son of a noble family from the Verdun region of France in the seventh century, Wandrille held a prestigious position at the court of his kinsman, King Dagobert I. However ...

Father Theophilos, a Pantokrator monk, left, Byzantine scholar Yiannis Niehoff-Panagiotidis, center, and Anastassios Nikopoulos, a jurist and scientific collaborator of the Free University of Berlin, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — A church bell ...