Monk

Eight monks killed in Thailand after eleven year old boy crashes pickup truck

The victims were part of a group of 34 Buddhist monks and five lay followers undertaking a pilgrimage from a temple in Mukdahan province to another in neighboring Ubon Ratchathani province.

A Buddhist monk walks across a road while collecting alms in Bangkok early on April 28, 2026.
 Caldey Abbey, Caldey Island, Wales, UK, May, 14 2018.

Review reveals decades of child abuse by monk on Caldey Island

 WILLIAM (second right) at his ‘huppah,’ with his wife at their wedding.

Christian monk, Jewish convert, Israeli: One man's journey to Judaism

 A devotee in trance mimics a beast during a religious tattoo festival at Wat Bang Phra monastery

Thousands, some in a trance, pay homage to a sacred Thai tattoo master


Follow your gut: The connection between digestive processes and meditation - study

Meditation can do far more than just help you change your mood; it can help your gut health reach where it needs to be.

 Tibetan Buddhist monks attend a lecture at Sera monastery in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China November 19, 2015

Meet the monk who found heredity in a pea

Johann Mendel was born in 1822, in a small village in the Austrian Empire, to a family of limited means.

 His groundbreaking work was properly recognized only long after his death. Gregor Mendel

Egypt executes monk for murder of bishop at monastery

Egyptian monks Wael Saad and Ramon Rasmi Mansour, were convicted of the killing of Bishop Epiphanius, 64.

St. Catherine Monastery in South Sinai, Egypt