by admin | Mar 13, 2024 | Worldnews
[ad_1] Three monks belonging to Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church were killed in an attack on Tuesday at a monastery in South Africa.The attack occurred at the Saint Mark the Apostle and Saint Samuel the Confessor Monastery.The Coptic Orthodox Church identified the...
by admin | Oct 12, 2023 | Worldnews
[ad_1] Franciscan monks in charge of churches in the Holy Land are struggling to keep pilgrimage sites open for Christians stuck amid the ongoing conflict.The Custody of the Holy Land, the Catholic priory tasked with administrating and protecting holy sites from the...
by admin | Sep 3, 2023 | Worldnews
[ad_1] By Associated Press ULAANBAATAR (MONGOLIA): With China’s crackdown on religious minorities as a backdrop, Pope Francis joined Mongolian shamans, Buddhist monks and a Russian Orthodox priest Sunday to highlight the role that religions can play in forging world...
by admin | May 11, 2023 | Worldnews
[ad_1] Seven Buddhist monks are among nine suspects who are being held in pre-trial detention after being arrested for allegedly embezzling assets worth about $8.9 million from donations received by a temple in Thailand’s northeast, authorities said Thursday.The...
by admin | Dec 1, 2022 | Worldnews
[ad_1] By AFP BANGKOK: A Buddhist temple in central Thailand has been left without monks after all its holy men failed drug tests and were defrocked, a local official said Tuesday. Four monks including an abbot at a temple in Phetchabun province’s Bung Sam Phan...