ATHENS, Greece, May 27 (UPI) -- Police and coast guard officials said they were on alert Wednesday in the wake of protests near a Mount Athos monastery.
MAE SOT, Thailand, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- A main principal of the protest movements led by Buddhist monks in Myanmar successfully fled to Thailand wearing a disguise.
YANGON, Myanmar, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- A group of Buddhist monks ended a tense standoff with authorities Thursday in Myanmar by releasing 20 government officials they had taken hostage.
NATICK, Mass., July 5 (UPI) -- The Rev. Laurence Mancuso, a founder of a monastery in New York State famous for its ministry of training German shepherd dogs, has died. He was 72.
PRISTINA, Serbia, March 30 (UPI) -- An explosion near a monastery in Serbia's Kosovo province left the Serb Orthodox monks worried they were under sectarian attack. The monks reported hearing a mortar shell about 1 a.m. Friday and NATO peacekeepers and Kosovo police searched to see where th
KARIES, Greece, Dec. 20 (UPI) -- At least seven monks were hospitalized after violent clashes with other monks at a disputed monastery in a self-governed region of Greece, police said.
CONYERS, Ga., Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Monks at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit near Conyers, Ga., have turned to fudge in addition to fruitcake to bolster the 43 brothers whose median age is 75.
CLEVELAND, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Eastern Orthodox followers are hailing as a miracle the appearance of dozens of crosses on drapes hanging in the St. Mary Egypt Orthodox Monastery in Cleveland.
THAMKRABOK, Thailand, June 14 (UPI) -- The Libertines guitarist Pete Doherty has reportedly fled a drug rehab program in Thailand and headed for Bangkok.
MOUNT ATHOS, Greece, March 5 (UPI) -- A fire damaged a 12th century Serbian Orthodox monastery on Mount Athos in north-eastern Greece, but most of the artworks and relics were saved.
