Come October, monks and nuns are busy harvesting olives at the Mount of Olives and the Gethsemane garden — where the Gospel narrates Jesus spent the last night before being taken up the other side of ...
During Russia's nighttime attack on Kyiv, the synagogue building and a nearby residential building were damaged, according to ...
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The Ukrainian government has declared that a branch of the Orthodox Church has failed to sever its longstanding ties with Moscow — and could soon be banned. The looming ban affects one of the two ...
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FILE - The Monastery of the Caves, also known as Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, one of the holiest sites of Eastern Orthodox Christians, in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File) ...
Ukraine Orthodox Dispute FILE - The Monastery of the Caves, also known as Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, one of the holiest sites of Eastern Orthodox Christians, in Kyiv ...
Nestled among the majestic cliffs of the Simbruini mountains in Subiaco, a town about an hour from Rome in the heart of the Aniene River valley, stands the Monastery of St. Benedict, also known as the ...
Kiev Pechersk Lavra, or Kiev Monastery of the Caves, is a historic Orthodox Christian monastery in Kiev. Built in the 11th century, it is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Ukraine Pecherskaya ...
The name of the monastery Pskov-Caves hints to us that the monastery has caves. 'Pechory' translates as 'caves' in English. Perhaps, they may have appeared naturally. The first monks began to live ...
The measure, which awaits President Volodymyr Zelensky’s signature, would further a long, post-Soviet split between two of the world’s largest Orthodox communities. By Andrew E. Kramer A battle has ...
CAIRO — In an oasis in the eastern desert of Egypt hidden deep in the Red Sea Mountains 140 miles southeast of Cairo, sits the oldest monastic building in the world, dating back to the third century.