On a sweltering afternoon, a group of young men in white robes are practicing kungfu in a backyard. A man is hitting another man's exposed back with a long, thin sandbag. The man who gets beaten never ...

Beijing (Agenzia Fides) - An "online archive" containing the identification data of all Buddhist and Taoist monks registered with the Chinese authorities, which can also be consulted by citizens who, ...

The son of Greek immigrants, Giorgio Koula wasn’t planning on a real estate career – until a shift as a waiter took an unexpected twist. Now director at Stone Inner West, Koula credits his outlook on ...

A Taoist monk who smoked up to 20 joints a day in a bizarre bid to beat his addiction has been told he must quit cannabis or go to jail. Michael Martin, 39, who teaches martial arts, said that he had ...

The first time I got in touch with Daoist Monk Yun Rou, which means Soft Cloud, he was known as Arthur Rosenfeld, born in New York City, educated at Yale, Cornell and the University of California. He ...

HONG KONG — A Hong Kong man who claimed to be a Taoist monk molested two women on the pretence of performing “Buddhist ceremonies” to help them exorcise spirits and purify the body, prosecutors told a ...

Chinese government officials said that “Supreme Master” Li Yi, a 41-year-old Taoist monk, had faked a long list of improbable super powers. Mr Li had claimed that he could sit cross-legged under water ...

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A self-proclaimed Taoist monk in Hong Kong molested a mother and her daughter to exorcise evil spirits, a court was told on Friday. Yuen Ming-kuen, 57, told the women he had special healing powers to ...