The Monastery of the Glorious Ascension sued Head of the Harbor, alleging the village has delayed church construction.

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 ...

Egypt’s plans to expand tourism around the 6th-century St Catherine’s Monastery near Mount Sinai could compromise its peace ...

ISTANBUL (RNS) — Archbishop Damianos of St. Catherine’s Monastery announced his intention to step down on Thursday (Sept. 4), the latest development in a saga surrounding the ancient 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 ...

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 ...

Nearly 1,000 years ago, when Kyiv was the capital of a kingdom known as Kyivan Rus ruled by Prince Yaroslav the Wise, several Orthodox Christian monks were granted permission to build a church on a ...