Monks rock the charts with plainchant hit

Only a fortnight after releasing their debut album of plainchant, the Cistercian monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz in Austria have reached number one on the UK Classics charts and number nine in the pop, rock and dance charts. The surprise hit band was discovered after...

Catholics to honour Burmese monks for nonviolent protests

A Catholic university in the US will honour the Buddhist monks of Burma (Myanmar) for their courage and nonviolent demonstrations against the tyrannical Burmese military earlier this year, by awarding them with an honorary doctorate. A representative of the monks,...

Monks on the march again for democracy in Burma

Several weeks after a brutal crackdown on thousands of democracy protesters across Burma, over a hundred Buddhist monks have taken part in the first public demonstration in northern Burma since the government’s wave of repression. In Pakokku the monks marched...