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Review reveals decades of child abuse by monk on Caldey Island

Victims were met with 'denial, suspicion, and a pervasive assumption that they were lying,' review states.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Caldey Abbey, Caldey Island, Wales, UK, May, 14 2018.
WILLIAM (second right) at his ‘huppah,’ with his wife at their wedding.

Christian monk, Jewish convert, Israeli: One man's journey to Judaism

William Karon’s spiritual path to Judaism was generations in the making.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
A devotee in trance mimics a beast during a religious tattoo festival at Wat Bang Phra monastery

Thousands, some in a trance, pay homage to a sacred Thai tattoo master

Many attend the ritual hoping it will help recharge the holiness of their tattoos and boost their luck.

|ByREUTERS
Tibetan Buddhist monks attend a lecture at Sera monastery in Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region, China November 19, 2015

Follow your gut: The connection between digestive processes and meditation - study

Meditation can do far more than just help you change your mood; it can help your gut health reach where it needs to be.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Meet the monk who found heredity in a pea

Johann Mendel was born in 1822, in a small village in the Austrian Empire, to a family of limited means.

JULY 27, 2022
ByYAEL EHRLICH/DAVIDSON INSTITUTE
His groundbreaking work was properly recognized only long after his death. Gregor Mendel

Egypt executes monk for murder of bishop at monastery

Egyptian monks Wael Saad and Ramon Rasmi Mansour, were convicted of the killing of Bishop Epiphanius, 64.

MAY 9, 2021
ByREUTERS
St. Catherine Monastery in South Sinai, Egypt