My writer friend Paul Kingsnorth tips me off to a marvelous project in rural Ireland: the establishment of an Orthodox women’s monastery by some Romanian nuns. The Orthodox Monastery of the ...

KARYES, Greece – Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived at the northern Greek peninsula of Mount Athos, on a visit to the autonomous Orthodox Christian monastic community here. Putin flew from ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — Mount Athos, a verdant peninsula in northern Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more than 1,000 years. The all-male autonomous community, known in ...

KARYES, Greece (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin visited a Russian Orthodox monastery Saturday as he wrapped up a two-day visit to Greece, which is looking for more Russian investment and ...

The first nun the Bolsheviks threw into the abandoned mine shaft was best known as the Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, the sister of the Russian Empress Alexandra. After the 1905 assassination of ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The Monastery of Simonos Petra clings almost impossibly to a sheer cliff above the Aegean Sea in northern Greece. Also known as Simonopetra or Simon’s Rock, the Christian ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — An investigation of a ...

In a few days, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew, the foremost leader in the Eastern Christian church, is scheduled to recognize the newly founded Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

On the Orthodox Old Calendar, this is a very impressive week for commemorating great ascetics, apologists and confessors of Orthodoxy. Today we commemorate St. Antony the Great, the great Father who ...