Pope Francis, who rose from modest means in Argentina to become the first Jesuit and Latin American pontiff, died on Monday ...

“Buona sera,” good evening ... Until his death, Benedict lived in a monastery inside Vatican City, not far from Francis’ own apartment, and mostly kept his promise to stay hidden from ...

More than 20 monks and officials from 12 countries visited the Lama Temple and the China Tibetology Research Center in Beijing, as well as the Sera Monastery, Potala Palace, Jokhang Temple and Tibet ...

Their lives intertwined further when Benedict stepped down from the papacy in 2013 and Francis ascended to the role. It ...

At Drepung monastery thousands of red-robed lamas crouched ... in which howitzers were used to end the defiance of the monks of Sera lamasery. More important to Tibet and the Dalai Lama was ...

MOSCOW, April 22 (Reuters) - Russian forces have retaken a monastery in Russia's Kursk region where Ukrainian troops had been holed up, state media reported on Tuesday. TASS news agency quoted a ...

Pray for me, as I will pray for you": with these words, recorded with a tired voice, Pope Francis wanted to send his last personal message to the Franciscan Poor Clares of the Monastery of ...

of the Motu Proprio Catholica Ecclesia' with which Pope Francis reduced the territory of the Territorial Abbey of Montecassino to a Territorial Abbey limited to the Abbey Church and the Monastery.