NICOSIA, Cyprus – Work carried out jointly by Greek and Turkish Cypriots to restore an Orthodox Christian monastery is being hailed as a symbolic milestone for unity and peace on the ethnically ...

When, in the mid-1990s, Jens Petzold first arrived in Syria, it was only supposed to be a temporary stop on his journey eastward from his native Switzerland. An agnostic and spiritual seeker, his real ...

Continuing Orthodox monasticism’s oldest unbroken tradition, Sinai monks still liturgize, shoeless, over the roots of the Burning Bush. On the holy ground where Moses was commanded to remove his ...

Detail of a thangka painting on show. WANG KAIHAO/JIANG DONG/CHINA DAILY For nearly a millennium, the iconic Sakya Monastery has stood on a snowy plateau between the Himalayan Mountains and Yarlung ...