A so-called all-male "holy mountain" in northern Greece has hosted Christian monasteries for nearly 2,000 years, with women strictly prohibited. But one woman may have somehow found a home there — at ...

Nestled in a rocky depression above the turquoise waters of the Aliakmonas River in northwest Greece lies a remarkable ...

For our series World of Worship, we sent correspondents around the globe to show us how different people celebrate their faith and honor religious traditions. In our first report, we head to the ...

ST. CATHERINE’S, EGYPT - (Reuters) - At St. Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Egypt's Mount Sinai, the silence in the library is broken only by low electrical humming, as an early manuscript is ...

Thirteen miles down an unmarked dirt road quietly sits the Monastery of Christ in the Desert, along the Chama River in Northern New Mexico. The monastery is home to 15 monks, some livestock, and a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For nearly 70 years, people from around the world visited St. Benedict’s Monastery in Old Snowmass, a place many called “a sanctuary,” “a sacred valley” and ...

On Mount Sinai in the Saint Catherine valley, hotels are under construction as part of Egypt's new tourism megaproject — Bahira AMIN Atop one of Egypt's Sinai mountains, near where the three Abrahamic ...

ALQOSH, Iraq (Reuters) - Nestled in a steep rocky hillside among the remote mountains of northern Iraq, the Rabban Hormizd Monastery has watched invaders come and go through Christianity's tumultuous ...

As of September 28, UNESCO had confirmed that Russia's invasion of its neighboring country had damaged 82 religious sites in Ukraine. The Holy Mountains Lavra of the Holy Dormition, a significant ...

A visit to St. Catherine’s Monastery at Mount Sinai in time for the feast of St. Catherine of Alexandria on Nov. 25. I see now why they’re called the “steps of repentance.” Some people learn the hard ...