God put me here to care for them,” he told The Associated Press in Greek at Panagia Hozoviotissa monastery, where he said not even a rock fell during the tremors. During that brief absence ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...