They choose to live in areas noted for poverty because they want to be identified as 'living with the poor'. A monastery in a crime-ridden part of Newark has been open for four years, defying a trend of monasteries losing monks. This place houses monks for the first year of their novitiates, then disperses them around the country. (Video by Ed Murray)
the whole Newark is crime-ridden.
inspectadet 4 years ago