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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NIAGARA FALLS -- A religious leader looking to help establish a Russian Orthodox monastery hopes one day to stir souls in the heart of the city. But first he will start with stomachs. The Rev.

Pope Leo XIV is set to embark on his first trip abroad with a visit to Turkey, marking a key event in Catholic and Orthodox ...

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 ...

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 religious Orthodox school that was targeted by a Russian teenage bomber had previously been described as a “hellish” and “damaging” place by students who had attended it and parents who had ...

Pope Leo XIV will leave for Türkiye on Nov. 27 to mark the 1700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea, a trip one ...

In Istanbul, Pope Leo XIV will meet the patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church to show amity between two of the world’s ...