Palantir CEO Alex Karp bought Colorado's St. Benedict's Monastery, once home to Trappist monks, for a hefty $120 million. The Aspen-area ranch will become the latest in his growing list of real estate ...

Down a mossy tree-lined driveway in rural Hawke's Bay, the six monks of the Kopua Monastery start their day at 4am with prayer. Photo / Alexa Cook Nestled in farmland near Takapau in Central Hawke’s ...

Benzinga and Yahoo Finance LLC may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below. Palantir Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ: PLTR) CEO Alex Karp paid a record $120 million for a monastery ...

If you have ever stood somewhere so high that the ground seems to disappear beneath you, you know the mix of awe and unease it brings. In Himachal Pradesh's Spiti Valley, there is a village that takes ...

The Monastery of Jerónimos or the Jerónimos Monastery, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Lisbon's Belém district. Exemplifying Portugal's Manueline style – a highly ornate style of ...

At the world’s oldest monastery, new technology is making long-lost manuscripts available to anyone with an Internet connection St. Catherine’s Monastery was built at the foot of Mt. Sinai in the 6th ...

Founded in 1106 in the west of Georgia, the Monastery of Gelati is a masterpiece of the Golden Age of medieval Georgia, a period of political strength and economic growth between the 11th and 13th ...

Tucson’s iconic Benedictine Monastery opened its doors to Central American asylum seekers ahead of schedule due to larger numbers of families arriving at the border and being released by immigration ...

The Monastery of Paleokastro (or "Old Castle") is an 18th-century nunnery on a verdant hill near the village of Ano Mera. It provides a respite from the bustling environment of Mykonos proper, ...

In Washington last week, Archbishop Patrick A. O’Boyle of Washington solemnly carried out one of the rarer ceremonies of the Roman Catholic Church: the formal blessing of a new abbot. He gave his ...

Although geographically distant from each other, these three monasteries (the first is in Attica, near Athens, the second in Phocida near Delphi, and the third on an island in the Aegean Sea, near ...