Egyptian archaeologists recently unearthed the remnants of a Christian monastic site from the 5th century, some 400 years after the time of Jesus Christ. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and ...

An ancient monastery dating to the dawn of Christianity was recently uncovered in an Egyptian desert, according to local officials. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced in late ...

Book review: Learning from the sons and daughters of Sts. Benedict and Scholastica, Patrick Henry sees a Benedictine world of many options that offer a fresh understanding of how to live as a ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — Mount Athos, a verdant peninsula in northern Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more than 1,000 years. The all-male autonomous community, known ...

Israeli archaeologists recently unearthed ancient gold at a former Christian monastery in the Judean Desert. The announcement was made by Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the ...

The monastic alternative, at least in the West, has become so deeply unfashionable that most people no longer consider the possibility, but there is, at least to me, something deeply appealing about ...

It’s “a vision so old it looks new,” writes Wilson-Hartgrove, a 20-something North Carolina pastor who is part of New Monasticism.New Monastics, he says, are a loosely confederated group of Christians ...