My mother took me everywhere—across Europe, the United States, the Middle East and North Africa. Everywhere she took me, she ...

AMORGOS, Greece — For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island monastery carved into a seaside cliff that’s little changed since its ...

YEREVAN (Armenpress/Panarmenia.net) — Armenian weightlifter, Olympic silver medalist, and reigning world and European champion Varazdat Lalayan has once again ...

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Russian forces have recaptured a monastery in the Kursk region of Russia, where Ukrainian troops had been holed up. Quoting a security source, the TASS news agency said Russian forces have ...

The two-week dig included local school and community groups in the search for remnants of the Cistercian monastery known as Erenagh Archaeologists believe they have found the site of a 12th ...

“Death day”, as we’ve facetiously called it; the second-last day of a Buddhism retreat at Kathmandu’s Kopan Monastery, when 130 fellow travellers and I will meditate on our own death ...

During the operation to liberate the Gornal St. Nicholas Belogorsky Monastery in the Sudzhansky district of the Kursk region, about two hundred servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed ...

Gornalsky monastery on the map of military operations. Illustration: "Military correspondents of the Russian Spring" The marines of the 40th brigade liberated the Gornal St. Nicholas Belogorsky ...

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It was to be their last new monastery in North America. They preserved the Elms but added an extensive addition for their cloistered order. It was built around a central courtyard and included a ...

For the first time ever, cameras are being allowed into an extraordinary community in this film, which is part of the Our Lives series. There are some unusual road signs on the approach to a ...