TASS/. The Russian Orthodox Monastery of St. Panteleimon, or Rossikon, on Mount Athos is not planning to close its mission in Moscow, Hierodeacon Filosof, the monastery’s deputy father superior ...

The men, 22 in all, had taken a bus more than 1,000 km (620 miles) from the Ukrainian city of Lviv to a monastery built on a ...

It was transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church in 2023, and moved to the lavra - another word for a monastery - in 2024. It was reported earlier on Wednesday that the roof of the bell tower ...

An ultraconservative Russian priest who denies coronavirus exists has taken over a women's monastery by force. Father Sergiy Romanov entered the Sredneuralsk convent outside the city of ...

The Kyiv Pechersk Lavra Christian monastery dates back to the 11th Century and is a seat of Ukraine's Orthodox Church (UOC). The Church split from the Moscow patriarchate after Russia's invasion.