The Jasna Gora Monastery, home to the fabled Black Madonna of Częstochowa. (Credit: Panoramio.) KRAKOW, Poland– In journalism school, one is taught that the opening paragraph of a new story should ...

CZESTOCHOWA-- Pope Francis missed a step and fell to the ground Thursday as he was coming to an open-air altar to celebrate Mass at Poland's holiest shrine of Jasna Gora. In a dramatic moment, the ...

The Polish Catholic shrine of Jasna Góra led a global rosary marathon Monday for an end to the coronavirus pandemic. The sanctuary in Częstochowa, southern Poland, is the third of 30 Catholic shrines ...

Each year, one painting draws millions of pilgrims and tourists to the non-descript Polish city of Czestochowa. Nestled in the industrial town of 300,000 is the historic monastery of Jasna Góra ...

CZESTOCHOWA, Poland (AP) -- Pope Francis missed a step and fell to the ground Thursday as he was coming to an open-air altar to celebrate Mass at Poland's holiest shrine of Jasna Gora. In a dramatic ...

Participants in colorful 3rd Equality Parade march with rainbow flags under heavy police presence in support of LGBT rights at the foot of Poland's most revered Catholic shrine, the Jasna Gora ...

A team of musicologists is reviewing 19th-century copies of musical scores from a Polish monastery’s archives in hopes that some might prove to be previously unknown works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, ...

Each year, one painting draws millions of pilgrims and tourists to the non-descript Polish city of Częstochowa. Nestled in the industrial town of 300,000 is the historic monastery of Jasna Góra ...