India's Kumbh Mela festival attracts tens of millions of Hindu faithful to Prayagraj in northern Uttar Pradesh state, but ...

Father John Gribben, an 81-year-old monk, is training for sprint races to raise money for charity, demonstrating remarkable fitness and dedication.

Many in countries like Spain have to maintain not only an ageing, shrinking cohort of monks and nuns, but also monumental, centuries-old buildings, said Fermín Labarga, a professor of church ...