MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The Monastery of Simonos Petra clings almost impossibly to a sheer cliff above the Aegean Sea in northern Greece. Also known as Simonopetra or Simon’s Rock, the Christian ...

CAMBRIDGE, New York After he and his fellow monks sang morning prayers in their church nestled in a forest, Brother Luke walked back to his residence to be greeted by a different kind of choir. Lucy ...

Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church stands before the reliquary, a bejeweled box containing a holy relic, at the main church in St. Panteleimon, the Russian monastery on Mount Athos, in ...

My writer friend Paul Kingsnorth tips me off to a marvelous project in rural Ireland: the establishment of an Orthodox women’s monastery by some Romanian nuns. The Orthodox Monastery of the ...

Christmas Day is observed by many Orthodox Christians on January 7 if their church uses the Julian, not the Gregorian, calendar. The Julian calendar is named after Roman emperor Julius Caesar. In this ...

Orthodox Patriarch Filaret of Kyiv has died at 97. He is remembered for his work to establish an independent Ukrainian Orthodox church that was free from Moscow’s religious authority.