They are the women religious of the Chaldean Syrian Church, one of the nine Eastern Rite churches in Kerala that traces its ...

Sr. Jincy Othottil poses for a photo in front of the Chaldean Syrian Higher Secondary School in Kerala, India, where she is ...

As almost the whole country knows by now, a group of 22 Buddhist monks were arrested on 25 April 2026, by the Police Narcotics Bureau at the international airport in Katunayake carrying approximately ...

Loquacious and quick with a smile and a joke, the newly installed Bishop Godfrey Mullen ministers to a hometown flock, ...

Monasteries seem the very antithesis of digital frenzy. Yet, a recent study by the Department of Sociology and the University Research Priority Program (URPP) Digital Religion(s) at the University of ...

A year after his first words "Peace be with you all,” we know a lot more about Cardinal Robert Prevost turned Pope Leo XIV. He has emerged as a pope of order for times of global chaos.

South Korea's first humanoid robot monk made its debut at Jogye Temple in Seoul, ahead of Buddha's birthday. Gabi, the 130-centimeter-tall robot, wore a traditional grey-and-brown Buddhist robe and ...

Sculptors in the northwest have completed a 3.6m sandstone high cross inspired by the 10th century Drumcliffe High Cross that ...

Victor Wembanyama participated in a secretive 10-day offseason retreat, which was tougher than we can imagine.

Film director Abinash Bikram Shah has taken on two of Nepal's touchiest subjects in "Elephants in the Fog" -- the way it ...

During his May 7 visit to St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore, Bishop Erik Varden of Trondheim, Norway, sat down with OSV News ...

Pope Leo XIV poses with Bishop Erik Varden of Trondheim during the Roman Curia's annual Lenten retreat in the Pauline Chapel at the Vatican Feb. 22, 2026. The Norwegian bishop was chosen by Pope Leo ...