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 ...

St Panteleimon’s was the only one of the peninsula’s 20 monasteries that was formally under Russian control. (There were a couple of other vast Russian houses on Athos, dedicated to Saint ...

COMMENTARY: American policy-makers should take this pathology into account when pondering whatever negotiations, or other ...

People plunge in icy water to celebrate the Orthodox Epiphany near the St. Serafimovsky Monastery on Russian Island in Russian far east port Vladivostok, Russia, Sunday, Jan. Sweden sends soldiers ...

YEKATERINBURG, December 29. /TASS/. Father Sergiy, a former Russian monk who denied the coronavirus existence and took control of a women’s monastery in the Urals, has been detained and is being ...

Patriarch Kirill, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, has been an enthusiastic backer of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, ...