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 ...
The Church of Sweden asked its parishes to stop inviting nuns from the St Elisabeth convent in Minsk because of their ...
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 ...
MASNA, Lebanon – Rebels in Syria freed more than a dozen Greek Orthodox nuns on Monday, ending their four-month captivity in exchange for Syrian authorities releasing dozens of female prisoners. The ...
The annual celebration marking the martyrdom of Saint Catherine began on Monday at Saint Catherine’s Monastery, with the ...
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 ...
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 ...
An Orthodox bishop in Syria has called for the release of 12 nuns kidnapped by Islamist rebels, saying they "have done no harm to anyone." "We've now reached the point where even nuns are being ...
A group of Greek Orthodox nuns in Syria, as well as women from their convent's orphanage, were returned safely Sunday, following their kidnapping by the rebel al-Nusra Front. "God did not leave us," ...
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