A high-profile nun has challenged the state governor of Arkansas in the United States to do "what is morally right" following his decision to schedule eight inm Sister Helen Prejean condemned what wo...
A 78-year-old nun was arrested after being caught shoplifting £16 worth of coffee, snacks and toiletries from a central Pennsylvania store, state police said. Officers said Sister Agnes Pennino was ...
A robot has been introduced as a priest in a Buddhist temple in Japan, with one Catholic theologian suggesting they could work in churches too. The robot Mindar can recite a pre-programmed sermon but...
A nun in Oklahoma has made an emotional last ditch plea to save the life of a man on death row. Richard Glossip faces execution after being convicted of murdering his boss, but he claims he has been ...
A nun in Spain says that she received death threats for suggesting Mary probably had sex with Joseph. Sister Lucia Caram of the Dominican order made the comments on Spanish television on Sunday."I th...
A nun in France has been refused a place at a care home because of her veil. Her headwear forms part of the traditional habit worn by nuns, but was deemed an "ostentatious religious symbol" by social...
A Catholic nun has revealed she has spent more than 650 days tweeting daily prayers to the US president. Sister Susan Francois, 46, of the Sisters of St Joseph of Peace religious order, sent her first...
A Syrian nun has told Russian media the West and Arab nations are undermining any efforts to bring peace to her country because they are "financing and protecti Mother Agnes-Mariam from the monastery...
The only nun who votes for the Academy Award winners says she doesn't mind watching the movies - despite some of the content. Revd Mother Dolores Hart gets to help decide who walks away with a statue...
A nun from a cloistered all-female convent in the Italian city of Macerata has given birth after going to hospital with a stomach ache, reportedly unaware she w According to Italian newspaper Il Gazz...
A Roman Catholic nun has told the jury in the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev that he had expressed sympathy for his victims from the bombings at the 2013 Boston Mar According to the New York Times, on Mo...
A Spanish nun plans to run as a radical election candidate in Catalan's elections. Sister Teresa Forcades from the Benedictine monastery of Montserrat has a degree in Public Health from Harvard Unive...
An Italian-born nun who confronted notorious outlaw and a folk hero Billy the Kid has been put on a path to possible sainthood. The case for Sister Blandina Segale's canonisation has been presented b...
A group of Catholic nuns protesting construction on land belonging to their congregation have been assaulted by unknown assailants. The incident occurred after the nuns of the Sisters of St Paul in H...
A nun based in the war torn Syrian city of Aleppo says she is committed to staying there, despite an ongoing bombardment. "Please help us - the bombs are falling all around us, but we are not going t...
Two nuns have admitted embezzling approximately $500,000 from a Catholic school in California and using it at casinos in Las Vegas, it has been claimed. Sister Mary Kreuper and Sister Lana Chang took...
A Catholic charity has provided £180,000 so nuns helping displaced Christians and others in Kurdistan can have a new convent. Aid to the Church in Need (ACN), which is part of the Vatican, has given...
The hearing regarding an outdoor chapel set up in Pennsylvania, in an attempt to block a proposed natural gas pipeline's path began on Wednesday. The Adorers of the Blood of Christ are protesting a p...
Residents at the Vatican are swapping robes and clerical collars for tracksuits and trainers. An athletics club for the Holy See has been launched. The 60 members include nuns, Swiss Guards, a 62-yea...
Nuns in Italy have run for their lives after a 6.6 earthquake destroyed a cathedral and basilica. The nuns knelt in prayer after firefighters rescued them in the town of Norcia. Emergency services ha...
