“The hope is they will come back here. All the monks want to come back. There is more than a chance that this will happen.” Mount Melleray staff member Christina O’Flynn’s tone was ...

Monks have been seeking spiritual enlightenment at these sites on steep cliffs, inside caves and atop an extinct volcano for centuries Shoshi Parks History Correspondent Six of the 24 Orthodox ...

The influential film made a star of Gordon Liu Chia-hui, who played the fighting Shaolin monk San Te, and set the style for many of the martial arts films which followed. But Lau’s two sequels ...

“Monasteries don’t make much sense without monks,” says Fr Richard Purcell, abbot of Mount Melleray Abbey in west Waterford. The cleric is in reflective mood as the Cistercian ...

A real-life 'kung fu kid' has become an online sensation after going viral on TikTok for training to become a Shaolin monk in Henan, China. 25-year-old Sacha Wenk enrolled as a full-time student ...

Malik Monk just found a new way to miss a dunk. The Sacramento Kings guard picked up a steal and had a clear path to the hoop late in the second quarter of their 123-117 win over the Golden State ...

A Buddhist monk has been mauled to death by his own pet pit bull, which launched a brutal attack on the man's face. Phra Bandit Bootsen was feeding the one-year-old pup named Jord, when it latched ...