In 1204 the soldiers who had set out to retake Jerusalem in the Fourth Crusade changed course—but why? The result would change medieval Europe forever.

The historic altar of the Syriac Orthodox Patriarchal Monastery of St. Mark in Jerusalem has been unveiled for the first time in nearly 350 years, following an extensive restoration. The Jan. 11 ...

Pristina and Belgrade distrust the diocese in Kosovo. One sees it as an agent of Serbian nationalism; for the other, it is not nationalistic enough. The faithful in the Serb minority, however, prefer ...

A monastery on Patmos builds silence in a world of noise. I was on the island called Patmos. To be precise, I was in the Orthodox Monastery of Saint John the Theologian, on a fortified hilltop once ...

A Russian Orthodox monastery's plan to build a church on its Saint James campus advanced after Head of the Harbor’s planning board approved the site plan. The Monastery of the Glorious Ascension on ...

Trabzon, Turkey (CNN) — If its ancient walls could talk, Sümela Monastery in eastern Turkey would have quite a few stories to tell. Since its founding in the 4th century CE by some of the earliest ...

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CHISINAU, Moldova - Father Mihai Bicu, a priest in the Orthodox Church in Moldova, boarded the flight back home from Moscow with his head spinning from the unfamiliar attention lavished on him. The 39 ...

ISTANBUL (RNS) — Archbishop Damianos of St. Catherine’s Monastery announced his intention to step down on Thursday (Sept. 4), the latest development in a saga surrounding the ancient Orthodox ...

For more than half a century, St. Sophia Greek Orthodox Church was home to San Antonio's Greek FUNstival, a time for the Alamo City to come together over traditional foods, music and dance and enjoy a ...

The Monastery of the Virgin Mary in Assiut holds special significance: It is considered to be the final stop of the Holy Family’s journey in Egypt. Celebrations for the feast of the Virgin Mary, ...