The word "punk" doesn't usually bring to mind meditation. But the growing popularity of Buddhism in the U.S. is attracting an unlikely fan base among punk rock enthusiasts. What does punk rock ...

Kevin Thew Forrester, who is ordained both as an Episcopal priest and as a lay Zen Buddhist, was elected bishop by the Diocese of Northern Michigan (the Upper Peninsula) in February. He is also ...

Catholic clergymen and believers are currently helping a Buddhist monk build a pagoda, a tangible act of friendship among people of different religions in Kalpitiya, a city located in the Diocese ...

On February 12 a devotee of Zen Buddhism was elected bishop of the Episcopal Church’s Northern Michigan diocese. Meanwhile, a Seattle-area priest has been given until March 30 to decide whether ...

The Rev. Kevin Thew Forrester, who was elected in February to lead the sparsely populated Diocese of Northern Michigan, failed to gain “consent,” or ratification, from a majority of elected ...

When asked if it was difficult for the Buddhist movement to buy the church, he replied it wasn’t. “No, not at all. I know that the diocese has strict guidelines when it comes to reuse.

Soon after his election by the diocese, conservative church bloggers from across the country discovered that he practices Zen meditation and received “lay ordination” from a Buddhist community.

Bishop Martin Amos of the Diocese of Davenport will meet on Oct ... Nhat Hanh was trained in the Mahayana Buddhist tradition and was ordained in 1949, Kiley said. He approached his mission ...

When filmmakers descended on China’s ancient Shaolin Monastery to make the 1986 box office hit Martial Arts of Shaolin starring Jet Li, they were shocked to find no monks. The 1,500-year-old ...

Host Andrew West with Kanishka Raffel, the new Archbishop of the Anglican diocese of Sydney. The Sri Lankan born, former-Buddhist is the first person from a non-European background to hold the ...

SEOUL--A South Korean deejay dressed as a Buddhist monk bounced up and down on stage while playing electronic music and shouting: “This too shall pass!” The performance brought cheers from a ...