Amidst the decline of Catholicism in France, the reconstruction of the Abbey of St. Wandrille emerges as a powerful sign of ...

AMORGOS, Greece (AP) — For more than a millennium, Orthodox Christian monks have woken up in the predawn darkness to start ...

An AP photographer captured a visual story about Father Spyridon, the monk depicted in the image, using the clouds to give ...

Last week in Missouri, Theodore E. McCarrick died at age 94. He was the former archbishop of Washington, D.C., and the highest American prelate of the Catholic Church to be ...

"But this time, the earthquake was much stronger, and bricks were falling around the monastery," she said. "I felt like I was ...

“But this time, the earthquake was much stronger, and bricks were falling around the monastery,” she said. “I felt like I was living in hell, and I ran to escape outside.” Mandalay has ...

Bare-handed monks slowly pick away the rubble that was once the wall of a historic Buddhist monastery in Mandalay, its exposed side a searing reminder of the deadly earthquake that rocked the city ...