The March 28 earthquake's official death toll stands at 3,645, but it could reach double that. Myanmar's population was ...

“You will know your vocation by the joy it brings you,” said Dorothy Day, the American journalist, writer and social activist who co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement. It accurately ...

Sister Esther recalls a Buddhist nun who, at the end of one of her courses, told her, “Now I know how God became man.” She adds: “I thought, ‘Gosh, I haven’t even heard that from a Christian yet!’” ...

The branch was carried to Sri Lanka by Sanghamitta (or Sanghamitra), the Mauryan king Ashoka’s daughter and Buddhist nun. Her arrival in Sri Lanka with the tree is still celebrated as Uduvapa Poya, an ...

Festivities will be in full swing this weekend at the Wat Dhammararam Buddhist Temple at 3732 E. Carpenter Road in Stockton. The festival will be held from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Friday through Sunday.

How Buddhist nun, Swiss photographer and Korean German writer bridged cultures through passion for temple cuisine In a quiet ...

India is set to introduce a unified curriculum in Buddhist monasteries near the Chinese border ... "The non-religious education taught by monks or nuns is not acknowledged outside monasteries," said ...

India is preparing to roll out its first school curriculum for Buddhist monasteries this month ... "The non-religious education taught by monks or nuns is not acknowledged outside monasteries ...

For Sister Idília María Moreira G. Carneiro, superior general of the Hospitaller Sisters, illness is not just a diagnosis or a curse to be avoided at all costs but a privileged place to ...

The branch was carried to Sri Lanka by Sanghamitta (or Sanghamitra), the Mauryan king Ashoka’s daughter and Buddhist nun. Mahitosh Mandal in his research paper Dalit resistance during the Bengal ...

The building, hidden behind trees and shrubs, is part of Corpus Christi Monastery and is home to Menlo Park’s Dominican nuns. “I guess you could say we’re professional prayers,” Sister André Marie ...

Bhutan is officially a Buddhist kingdom. It's also a fledgling democracy trying to establish a balancing act to honor its ...