Proy Than’, or coin offering toss, is an essential ritual in a new monk's ordination ceremony. Attendees are advised to bring umbrellas, as the event often becomes a festive scramble for the tossed ...

François Ponchaud, a French Catholic missionary priest whose book "Cambodia: Year Zero" helped draw global attention to the staggering atrocities committed by the radical communist Khmer Rouge in the ...

The Baroque painter Francisco de Zurbarán is celebrated today as one of the greatest masters of the Spanish Golden Age. His ...

The man, who is not named in the complaint, alleges abuse over 100 times between 1989 and 2003 by Friar Paul Daleo, who served as priest at the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Passaic.

In 2005, Qambalin was built by its first chief priest, now 84-year-old Eibin Morishita ... Monastery to build Qambalin." In the past, monks have even come to the temple from Tibet to hold memorial ...

Many of the priests completed Witness Statements at the Bureau of Military History, and the Capuchin Friars noted their memories in various issues of the Capuchin Annual. [4] A precursor to the ...