Near the base of a column atop which Saint Simeon Stylites once perched, scattered stones lay bare the damage inflicted on ...

Rick Steves shares his favorite places to learn about the bleak black arts used to extract confessions and punish criminals.

Florida has given the world theme parks, retirement communities, and an inexhaustible supply of bizarre news headlines, but ...

Traces of that past touch Sicily every day. Sometimes it’s enough to make your head spin. But don’t worry. We’re not going to ...

It promises to be the greatest clash between England and Norway since the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066. Back in the blood-mists of the Middle Ages, England under King Harold ...

Beguines rejected the notion that they only had two paths in life by living together in religious communities without taking ...

For centuries, fragments of an ancient biblical manuscript existed only as scattered pieces hidden inside the bindings of ...

By Svitlana Dukhovych The Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra is not only Ukraine's oldest monastery but also one of the foremost symbols of its Christian history and spiritual identity. In an in ...

As I get older, I have discovered I like a beer; not too many, just one or two, now and then. A hoppy red is my favourite, but a solid brown ale, unusual enough in Ireland, is best of all. There is ...

Ladakh, located in the Himalayas, is known greatly for its spiritual heritage in Tibetan Buddhism. Ladakh boasts many monasteries, also known as gompas, which are places of worship and are also ...

Probably not, but the concern itself suggests that modernity's acolytes are high on their own supply. For starters, it’s not at all clear that the phenomena for which she offers an explanation are ...

Why do some organizations survive across the centuries while others founder when faced with technological disruption? A new study by the University of Zurich shows that historically developed monastic ...