An ancient Christian monastery possibly dating as far back as the years before Islam spread across the Arabian Peninsula has been discovered on an island off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, ...

One of the most picturesque cities on the Golden Ring, Pereslavl-Zalessky offers visitors a number of historic buildings to explore. Photographs by William Brumfield The ancient path northeast of ...

“You must give up the right to own anything for yourself.” “You must give up the pleasures of the world, even of your own body.” “You must give up the right to decide things for yourself.” Most people ...

Mosul, Iraq -- The abuses of authoritarian regimes across the Middle East extend far beyond the displacement and persecution of indigenous communities such as the Assyrian people. These regimes have ...

Thomas Merton, who died a little more than 30 years ago, is the most celebrated monk who ever lived and worked at the Abbey of Gethsemani, but the monastery in Kentucky’s Nelson County is hardly the ...

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Russian chemist and photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky devised a complex process for vivid, detailed color photography. His vision of photography as a form ...

Soldiers escaped the pressures of war recently by indulging in some history. They visited the ruins of a monastery at Forward Operating Base Marez in Mosul, Iraq, that resembles a castle. The Dair Mar ...

The Sisters of St. Benedict of Ferdinand were founded in 1867, when four Benedictine nuns from St. Walburg Monastery in Covington, Kentucky, moved to Ferdinand. The area hosted a burgeoning community ...

More than 150 years of history were stolen from a Northern Kentucky monastery.A burglar stole more than 125 rings and $1,800 in cash from the Benedictine Sisters of St. Walburg Monastery.The Villa ...