Revelation of Instagram spurs retired Catholic devotees in Abruzzo to gain millions of views with upbeat videos ...

Holly Lueders and Venetia Sacret Young turned a 16th-century monastery into an elegant mansion. The 26-acre property had been abandoned for decades before the duo bought it in 2006. The home, which ...

A vast blaze has torn through the historic Bernaga Monastery in northern Italy, the Italian fire service said Sunday, forcing the evacuation of 22 cloistered nuns. Founded in 1628, the monastery in La ...

Texan Bianca Sharma was on vacation with her sons on Italy’s Amalfi Coast when she spotted a former monastery and convent from the 17th century that lay abandoned. It took 10 years for that smitten ...

The Via di Linari winds through the Apennines, passing abbeys, castles, and mountain towns. Here’s how to hike the Italian route.

Two Italian nuns abducted by Al Shabab militias last November have been freed. An Italian Foreign Ministry spokesman gave no details on the release but a Catholic missionary news agency said the two ...

A former monastery in Tuscany, Italy, from the 8th century—making it the region’s oldest surviving abbey—is now on the market, according to Lionard Luxury Real Estate. Located outside Siena, about 45 ...

A devastating fire engulfed the historic Bernaga Monastery near Milan, Italy, on Saturday evening, local media and officials reported. Newsweek reached out to Italy’s national fire brigade for comment ...

GROTTAFERRATA, Italy (Reuters) – (This November 30 story corrects in second paragraph to make clear order not founded by St. Basil and in eleventh paragraph, Italo-Greek rite, not Italo-Albanian) In ...

On Wednesday hooded attackers assaulted Franciscan monks at a monastery in the Alps foothills near Turin, leaving one priest severely injured and the three other victims hospitalized. The Archbishop ...