The Knights Templar, a legendary monastic military order forged in the fires of the Crusades, continue to enthrall ...

A new textbook soon to be taught in Russian schools leans on the works of a 16th-century monk. It fits a pattern of ‘political neomedievalism’ by the Kremlin.

Ivan’s reign led to a period known as the “Time of Troubles,” marked by famine and military defeat ... is described as a “saintly monastic order” led by a “pious tsar.” ...

India and Pakistan trade fire and accusations as fears of a wider military confrontation rise The EU publishes ... and to the ...

“As a military man,” says the younger Sukenik ... s scrolls turned out to be the Manual of Discipline of an early monastic order, and a comparison of this new document with the descriptions ...

Dozens of earls, barons and bishops attended, all with their own military followings ... France had all laid out basic rules for human society, and they were kept in written form for reference ...

Human rights groups say the breakdown of law and order in the first months after ... maintained an uneasy relationship with Egypt’s military rulers. During the 1970s, Copts suffered a wave ...

bringing Chan Buddhism and the fully ordained monastic order to the West. He also founded the Dharma Realm Buddhist University at CTTB, and the Buddhist Text Translation Society which works to ...