A sex scandal isn't scandalous because of sex. It usually takes particularly striking circumstances - such as institutionalized coercion, violence or prostitution of minors or the involvement of ...

Thai Police have arrested a woman who squeezed nearly $12 million out of Buddhist monks trying to cover up having broken ...

At least nine abbots and senior monks involved in the scandal have been disrobed and cast out of the monkhood, police said.

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Police in Thailand arrested a woman Tuesday who allegedly enticed a string of Buddhist monks into sexual relationships and ...

A third of Buddhist monks tested positive for meth during a surprise raid at a temple in northern Thailand. Six of 18 clergymen were kicked out of the monkhood after failing drug tests at the Wat ...

A new exhibition by the National Museum of Ireland features 17 ancient manuscripts with margin scribbles by Irish monks from ...

The scandal first surfaced in mid-June when the abbot of the prestigious Wat Tri Thotsathep monastery abruptly left the ...

US Ambassador Mike Huckabee decried the alleged attack on a historic church in Taybeh. US Ambassador Mike Huckabee toured ...

Two Benedictine monks, some Indiana Jones-like adventures, and a visit to a Kentucky bourbon maker led a Minnesota man to ...

The monks in Thailand’s Chaiyaphum province wrap saffron robes around endangered trees to ‘ordain’ them and protect them from ...

BANGKOK (The Nation Thailand/ANN): Thai police investigate senior monks in connection with extorting hundreds of millions for ...