Porto’s 600-year-old Leça do Balio monastery has found a new lease of life as cultural centre

The “situation” around the fourth-century Monastery of Saint Hilarion has "deteriorated rapidly" due to the war, an expert says

Many Unesco World Heritage sites that are also working monasteries have been accused of reacting slowly to the pandemic

In the first round of a lengthy legal battle, an Italian court has ruled in favour of a right-wing Catholic organisation which the Ministry of Culture is trying to oust from a historic abbey