January in Russia conjures up images of Muscovites crunching through the snow in bulky coats -- not bunches of delicate ...

Cultures across the globe have their version of utopia: the Garden of Eden, Elysium, Shambhala. In the heart of Eurasia, ...

The abbots and abbesses of 39 monasteries in Greece and Mount Athos have issued an open letter supporting the Ukrainian ...

18, 2025. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov) People plunge in icy water to celebrate the Orthodox Epiphany near the St. Serafimovsky Monastery on Russian Island in Russian far east port Vladivostok ...

Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested that they lacked family and “roots,” the latest antisemitic statement from the Russian leader since his 2022 ...

Father Grigorios, a Greek-Orthodox monk lived 38 years of his life in a monastery-fortress on the remote Ionian island of Strofades. Public Domain This is the story of Father Grigorios, a ...

Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral wasn't completed until the early 20th century. Tsar Nicholas II, the head of the tragic Romanov family, commissioned the ornate building not only to honor the ...

St. Elizabeth and St. Luke's may have closed, but their history can be preserved by those who lived it. Anyone can look up ...

Archbishop Anastasios Υannoulatos was an enlightened prelate and a distinguished academic. In 2000 he was candidate for the ...