Three octogenarian nuns have defied their diocese, run away from their nursing home and returned to their former convent in Salzburg, Austria, which they are now occupying.

After 800 years of silence, a pipe organ that researchers say is the oldest in the Christian world has roared back to life at ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered a rare Christian cross at Sir Bani Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, linked to a monastery built ...

Archimandrite Symeon Papadopoulos was elected new abbot of the Greek Orthodox St Catherine's Monastery on Mt Sinai ...

The Jonang Takten Phuntsok Choeling Monastery is a very small, modest monastery of more than one hundred monks. The majority of the monks also come from Tibet and Mongolia ...

St. Catherine's, the Christian world's oldest continuing monastery, drew international attention earlier this year because of concern that the Egyptian government might take over its sacred property.

Officials said they found body armor, high-capacity magazines, brass knuckles and knives in the man’s vehicle.