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 ...

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 Orthodox monastery transcends ...

In the Macedonian region of Greece, there are three small peninsulas, collectively known as Halkidiki. The southern part of ...

Immediately after his inauguration as president of the Russian Federation in May 2008, Dmitry Medvedev proceeded to a Kremlin church, where Patriarch Aleksy II blessed him and gave him an icon of the ...

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 ...

Ioannis Kapodistrias, Greece's revered first Governor, may soon be officially recognized as a saint by the Orthodox Church.

Hollywood icon Mel Gibson is reportedly in Greece for a spiritual retreat before filming begins for "The Resurrection of Christ" in August. Images of Gibson, 69, touring Hilandar Monastery on Mount ...

The feds falsely accused Rev. Father Andrew Bushell of misusing the funds to buy $40,000 in Swiss watches and a $7,000 Goyard ...

Wael Saad, a former monk of the Coptic Orthodox Church, was executed on Sunday for the 2018 murder of Bishop Epiphanius, the abbot of St. Macarius Monastery. Saad’s brother told Reuters the family was ...

It’s a weird story, even in 2020—and that’s saying something. Father Sergey, a COVID-denying conspiracy-spewing Russian monk, had, with the help of an ad hoc personal army that includes veterans of ...

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