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 ...

Russia has seen an explosion in the number of Orthodox convents over the past two decades. After the 1917 revolution, all were closed. Some women continued to live as nuns in secret, but with the end ...

The undulating, ethereal vocalizations of a choir of men chanting melodies in Greek seem to transcend space and time, sweeping back the veil separating Heaven and Earth. It could have be ...

Hundreds gathered at the Holy Monastery of St Nectarios in Croydon Park in Adelaide for a day that blended Orthodox devotion ...

In June 1999, when paramilitaries were marauding in the town of Decan/Decani as the Kosovo war came to an end, the abbot of the local Serbian Orthodox monastery sheltered ethnic Albanians inside the ...

In total silence, Sister Elisaveta stitched the sacred headwear for which her monastery in North Macedonia is renowned throughout the Orthodox world. In her careful hands, the mitre glimmered as if ...

MOSCOW -- The Russian Orthodox Church is struggling to wrest back control of a convent in the Urals after a cleric it suspended for disobeying its coronavirus-prevention policies occupied the compound ...

CLARKSTOWN - A fire destroyed a cottage on the property of a Russian Orthodox convent in Nanuet today. The blaze broke out in a candle-making area of a one-story building at the Novo-Diveevo convent ...

Priests are being beaten and murdered. They are being drafted into the army, sent to the front lines, where they die,” Nikolai Azarov said.