India's Kumbh Mela festival attracts tens of millions of Hindu faithful to Prayagraj in northern Uttar Pradesh state, but ...

Have any old Orthodox holy items been preserved in your family ... And there, on April 30, 2013, I was tonsured a monk by His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion, with the blessing of His Holiness ...

Removes earthly stresses' - Inside an old wooden church adorned with icons, Father Stefanos, who was raised in an Orthodox ...

The Coptic Orthodox Church named the monks killed in South Africa as Monk ... The suspect arrested was a 35-year-old man. Police did not provide his name or other details. He was due to appear ...

"With real faith," the 58-year-old monk with animated green eyes says ... from the outside world and newly arrived Eastern Orthodox pilgrims are deposited. (Visitors must apply for a special ...

A young transgender man is suing an Orthodox monk from Greece's monastic community of Mount Athos (Agion Oros).

Sinai and talks about the monks’ manuscript preservation efforts: Just as they have done for 17 centuries, the Greek Orthodox monks of St. Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s Sinai desert and ...