ROME, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- Two Italian nuns kidnapped in Kenya last year have been released, the Italian Foreign Ministry said Thursday.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Police say a burglar in Philadelphia slipped into the bedrooms of sleeping nuns to steal $130, a laptop computer and personal religious items.
NAIROBI, Kenya, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- Italy's Foreign Ministry says a Somali fundamentalist gang kidnapped two Italian nuns doing humanitarian work in northern Kenya on Monday.
WARSAW, Poland, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Police evicted some 70 nuns and detained their leader, ending a two-year protest during which the women barricaded themselves in a northern Poland convent.
MADRID, April 11 (UPI) -- An order of Spanish nuns has been accused of stealing priceless religious icons when they moved from their previous convent.
MONTREAL, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Canadian researchers say mystical experiences may involve more than one area of the brain.
XIAN, China, Dec. 2 (UPI) -- Five Roman Catholic nuns in China were severely beaten and hospitalized for resisting the sale of land claimed by their church in the city of Xian.
PARIS, July 16 (UPI) -- The Vatican has granted a religious order the task of running an ancient French monastery, replacing nuns who have lived there for nearly two centuries.
VATICAN CITY, June 16 (UPI) -- A conference of historians convened in 1998 by the Vatican has concluded torture and executions were not common during the Inquisition.
