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Tibetan Buddhist monastery, once all nuns, makes room for monks
By Tracy Simmons — April 26, 2023
Coed Tibetan Buddhist monasteries are rare, and the abbey’s newest senior teacher said the mix has taken some getting used to.
Tensions on the rise at revered Kyiv monastery complex
By Hanna Arhirova — March 27, 2023
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The dispute is part of a wider religious conflict playing out in parallel with the war.
With searches, Ukraine focuses suspicions on Orthodox clergy
By Hanna Arhirova and Peter Smith — November 24, 2022
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — An investigation of a centuries-old monastic complex in Ukraine’s capital has underscored Ukrainian authorities' suspicions about some Orthodox Christian clergymen they see as loyal to Russia.
Buddhist nun shares art of eating mindfully
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald — August 24, 2018
(RNS) — In her book, Thubten Chodron teaches the Five Contemplations, which are aimed at fostering mindful eating. They're short verses designed to inspire reflections.
California hermitage sees surge in lay people who want a monastic experience
By Kate Olson — February 21, 2017
BIG SUR, Calif. (RNS) New Camaldoli Hermitage's program for oblates — people who live in the world but are associated with religious communities — was launched in 1984 with 15 oblates. Now the number is around 700.
Christian heritage found ransacked in monastery retaken from Islamic State
By Jerome Socolovsky — November 21, 2016
KHIDIR ILYAS, Iraq, (Reuters) - The history pages of Iraq's Christian community lie in charred fragments on the floor of a fourth-century monastery near Mosul which Islamic State militants ransacked during a two-year occupation that ended over the weekend.
Israel arrests two Jewish teens for Jerusalem monastery vandalism
By Reuters — January 20, 2016
Police said the teenagers wrote curses such as "Christians go to hell" in Hebrew script on doors and walls of the Dormition Abbey in the Old City.
Highway widening may cut off legendary church from drive-by worshippers
By Maryann Eidemiller — December 5, 2014
NEW BALTIMORE, Pa. (RNS) The days when the “Church of the Turnpike” as its known, served as a beacon to road-weary travelers, could be numbered.
Supreme Court affirms monks’ right to sell caskets
By Katherine Burgess — October 22, 2013
WASHINGTON (RNS) “We really can now move forward without worrying about being shut down,” said Deacon Mark Coudrain, manager of St. Joseph Woodworks in Covington, La.
Sravasti Abbey a dream fulfilled for American Budddhist nuns
By Tracy Simmons — May 7, 2012
NEWPORT, Wash. (RNS) Just outside of town, Sravasti Abbey is one of the only monastic communities in the West for Americans to study the Buddha's teachings. The abbey now has five U.S.-born, fully ordained nuns, which allows ceremonies to be held. By Tracy Simmons.
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