Plans for the ‘Big Buddha’ on Lantau Island were first announced in 1969, but the statue was not completed until 1990 – and ...

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The Vatican rendered a Catholic monastery in North Texas "extinct" after one of its nuns reportedly broke her chastity vows. According to the Houston Chronicle, the judgment follows a year-long ...

The Monastery of Jerónimos or the Jerónimos Monastery, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Lisbon's Belém district. Exemplifying Portugal's Manueline style – a highly ornate style of ...

The three Gifts of the three Kings which were given to the newborn Jesus is one of the most valuable relics housed on Holy ...

Discover the beauty of Norcia and the Benedictine monastery on the Mountain. Join Ross Douthat on a captivating journey in ...

Remains of cells once inhabited by the Ukrainian saint, Paisius Velichkovsky, have been discovered on Mount Athos.

Last December, a farmer was burning dry grapevines in his vineyard in Deir Mar Moussa, a hill town a dozen miles east of ...

Your senses are alive and your heart's alight. Sukoon, that's about as close as it gets. One word. A hundred emotions.

The monastery of Einsiedeln was built as a Baroque edifice with four inner courtyards in the 18th century. Before that time Romanesque and Gothic buildings defined the monastery, which was founded by ...

From the Loch Ness Monster to casting spells, it didn’t take me long to embrace my inner child here. Steeped in centuries of ...

During excavations at Makurian Ghazali, an ancient site in modern-day Sudan, archaeologists uncovered the remains of a walled ...