MEXICO CITY — It’s the fortnight before Christmas and all through the world’s Catholic convents, nuns and monks are extra busy preparing the traditional delicacies they sell to a loyal fan base even ...

Restoration workers at a 700-year-old convent in Italy found several centuries-old paintings hidden under the whitewashed walls, officials said. Google Street View ...

On Sunday, the first snowfall of December covers the Convent of St. Birgitta in a blanket of pure white. “The world is cloaked in beauty today,” Father David Blanchfield says as he begins delivering ...

In Louisiana, there are lots of historic buildings and homes, and some of these structures' history span all the way back to when Louisiana was still under French rule. A plethora of knowledge ...

PÁTZCUARO, MEXICO — Atop the highest hill in this lakeside town sits the Basílica de Nuestra Señora de la Salud, built in the 1500s with whitewashed walls and red stone columns. On a street around the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sister Rita (left), Sister Regina (centre) and Sister Bernadette were homesick in their care home Three elderly nuns left their ...

RONDA, Spain, Feb 16 (Reuters) - With only four nuns left, southern Spain's historic Corazon Eucaristico de Jesus convent is on the brink of closure. Now its prioress is calling on sisters everywhere ...

Since early September, three elderly nuns have been making international headlines and gaining followers on Instagram after fleeing their nursing home and returning to their convent in Austria. Sister ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — An ambitious $100 million plan to turn a former Syracuse convent and college campus into low-income senior housing has become a race to save the historic site from vandals and thieves ...