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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

The monks who live there belong to the Megistis Lavras Holy Monastery, one of the 17 Greek Orthodox monasteries of the Mount Athos cluster. The Monastery is located on a rock plateau of the Athos ...

Loutraki, Corinthia: A Candlelit Maritime Procession In Loutraki, the Epitaphios from the Church of Panagia Giatrissa winds through the town’s neighbourhoods before reaching the coastal road. There, ...