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 founding more ...

It stands across from the Monastery of the Pantokrator. It is called Panagia Vefa because the neighborhood was named after the Sufi “Vefa,” who lived there. Visitors to the Greek Orthodox church in ...

Abbot of the Holy Monastery of Panagia Kallipetra, Imathia. “The Resurrection is renewal — all the more so for the monk, who lives precisely a life of the Crucified,” — Archimandrite ...

Kavvidopoulos,” Mr. Dendias noted in a post. Tomorrow, Holy Saturday, April 19, Mr. Dendias will travel to the island of Panagia in the Oinousses complex, where he will visit the surveillance outpost.

Restoration efforts are proceeding at the Church of Panagia Acheiropoietos, with the Ministry of Culture, through the Thessaloniki Antiquities Department, undertaking a comprehensive project to ...

Andrea Pistolesi Getty Images A few days ago, I found a breathtaking Associated Press photo essay about Father Spyridon Denaxas, an Orthodox monk who since 1971 has prayed and ministered at the ...

an Orthodox monk who since 1971 has prayed and ministered at the gleaming white Panagia Hozoviotissa monastery, which is built into the face of a cliff on the island of Amorgos in the Aegean Sea.

Smaller crosses or “Lazars” are also decorated in many people's homes. In Oia, the picturesque church of Panagia Platsani is the center of Easter celebrations and ceremonies. During the festivities, ...

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 ...

“This is an ecumenical monastery, open to the whole world. ... Everyone receives something from her grace.” Panagia Hozoviotissa, whose image is on the cover of the current Lonely Planet ...

Everyone receives something from her grace.” Island life continues to revolve around beloved monastery Panagia Hozoviotissa, whose image is on the cover of the current Lonely Planet Greece guide, is ...