In 1995, six Orthodox monks left Mount Athos in Greece and came to the US to start Saint Anthony Orthodox Monastery in the Arizona desert.

Via Elizabeth Scalia, here’s a story, with astonishing photos, of Orthodox monks (including no doubt priest-monks) in Kiev, keeping vigil between riot police and protesters, trying to prevent ...

For the past thousand years or so, a community of Eastern Orthodox monks has dwelled here, purposefully removed from everything except God. They live only to become one with Jesus Christ.

The goal was to subsequently transfer these properties to the state. Monks and parishioners of the ROC obstructed access to the Lower Lavra entrance while engaging in religious chants, causing ...

“The history and the spirituality of the Italo-Greek monks in Byzantine [1] Southern Italy and Sicily is the account of a people faithful to their Orthodox Faith and their Byzantine culture in ...

Two men accused of fatally stabbing three Egyptian monks belonging to the Coptic Orthodox Church this week appeared in a South African court Thursday and will remain in custody until their next ...

In Orthodox Christian theology, phenomena like these are ascribed to the uncreated energies ... They travelled to Metz, where King Theudebert of Austrasia, the brother of Theoderic, received them most ...

Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jews were once exempt from military service — but now they are being drafted. One of those new draftees, Yechiel Wais, was excited, hoping the military would help him ...

Tikhon’s Bookstore in Waymart, Wayne County, the nation’s largest Orthodox bookstore, and printing press, started Burning Bush Coffee Roasters in January. Since then, the monks embraced ...

On Friday, it was reported that a state-run cultural institution had ordered UOC monks to vacate the historic Eastern Orthodox Christian monastery known as the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra by March 29 ...

TASS/. Russia’s armed forces released about 300 citizens and monks who were held hostage by militants of the national battalion Aidar in the Orthodox Holy Dormition Nikolo-Vasilyevsky monastery ...