And my mouth shall declare your praise. For centuries, monks have mouthed these words as they begin their daily regimen of prayer in the pre-dawn hours. The Liturgy of the Hours — Psalms and prayers ...

Exiled Tibetan Buddhist monks ushered in the first day of the Tibetan New Year or Losar by holding ritual prayers on the terrace of the Tsuglakhang temple in Dharamshala on Friday. (AP video shot by ...

St. Benedict’s final public liturgical services will take place just shy of its 70th anniversary in Old Snowmass, where a ...

Even monks who take a vow of poverty need money to put bread on the table. Over the years the half-dozen Cistercian Order monks at the Abbey of Our Lady of Spring Bank in Sparta, Wis., have tried ...

SPARTA, Wis. -- Eight times a day, the Rev. Bernard McCoy solemnly chants prayers in Latin from 100-year-old books in the chapel of his monastery. Then it is back to his computer and telephone, to run ...

YUSHU, Qinghai - More than 120 monks from the Thrangu Monastery in Yushu on Wednesday held a mass prayer service to mourn the dead. It was the largest religious activity held in the Tibetan autonomous ...

KEWEENAW COUNTY, Mi (WPBN/WGTU) -- For over 30 years, the Byzantine Catholic monks of the Holy Transfiguration Skete have lived in quiet solace and prayer while also growing a reputation as some of ...

From a small house on a busy street in the university section of Akron, Ai Hong and his wife, Aliyeh Chan, devote hours responding to the military crackdown in Myanmar, their former home. The military ...

Hong Dirienzo clasped her hands together and knelt with her face to the wooden floor of the Sawdust Art & Craft Festival’s Healy House as the guttural chanting of seven Tibetan monks rose around her, ...