Israel’s parliament has given preliminary approval to a bill that would put the country’s Orthodox Chief Rabbinate in charge ...

A little over nine months have passed since two Phoenix teens were found with gunshot wounds to the head while camping.

The memories of the University of Idaho students killed in 2022 live on in a nonprofit co-founded by a sorority sister and ...

Nearly 30 years ago, Brother Mickey McGrath, OSFS, an award-winning artist, found himself in a hospital room as his father ...

In Plato's Allegory of the Cave, Plato provides a timeless insight into how we are often "prisoners" of our mind, in that we are born into a world of "shadows", which we confuse with reality. Wisdom ...

The Monastery of Panagia Yiatrissa (“Mary the Healer”) in Kastania, on the slopes of Taygetus, is traditionally believed to ...

The tour includes the attic apartment where Maila Nurmi lived with her cat Lucifer P. Catt and the Labor Temple where she ...

Colman McCarthy dedicated his life to peace — from training to be a monk, to teaching and writing about peace. NPR's Scott Detrow talks with his eldest son, Jim McCarthy, about his father's legacy.

The leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel has been buried in a shiny golden casket with enormous flower wreaths and a ...

Every Lunar New Year for the last 14 years, a Buddhist temple in Rosemead has displayed what it calls the '10,000 Buddha ...

Every Lunar New Year for the past 14 years, a Southern California Buddhist temple has displayed what it calls the “10,000 ...

Monastic life looks peaceful from the outside. In reality, monks lived on rigid schedules, heavy meals, and constant prayer. Alcohol was safer than water and consumed daily. Large portions and few ...