A method used to study Egyptian fruit bats help two scholars understand the connections between the Talmud and Christian writings. To find out, an Israeli religion scholar turned to an Israeli ...

CAMBRIDGE, New York — After he and his fellow monks sang morning prayers in their church nestled in a forest, Brother Luke walked back to his residence to be greeted by a different kind of choir. Lucy ...

AMORGOS, Greece — For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island monastery carved into a seaside cliff that’s little changed since its founding more ...

For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island monastery carved into a seaside cliff that's little changed since its founding more than a millennium ...

What it tells us about the past: The Book of Kells is a large illuminated manuscript — a handwritten and heavily illustrated document ornamented with paints made from gold and silver. It was made at ...

In a land where the echoes of pharaohs still haunt the ruins, a different kind of spiritual legacy is now emerging from beneath the ground—one that belonged to a humble community devoted not to ...

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — An Orthodox Christian monk was hospitalized following a violent confrontation at a monastic sanctuary in northern Greece, authorities said Friday. The incident is tied to a ...

(JTA) — What did rabbis of late antiquity know about Christianity? To find out, an Israeli religion scholar turned to an Israeli zoologist who studies bats. Their strange-bedfellows paper on the topic ...