US President Donald Trump claimed his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agreed to a week-long pause in attacks on major ...

Mount Athos is home to twenty monasteries where only monks are allowed to live and only males are allowed to visit, women are banned.

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The monastery was struck by dozens of Shahed-type drones, many of which hit nearly the same area. Archimandrite Isaiah ...

The Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (the Monastery of the Caves) was damaged during a large-scale Russian missile and drone attack on ...

A Russian drone and missile attack has damaged parts of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, Ukraine's most famous religious landmark and ...

A Greek Orthodox monk on Mount Athos, the center of Orthodox monasticism, died at the age of 82 without ever seeing a woman.

Ukraine’s domestic security service has launched an investigation into a monastery in Kyiv amid allegations that it has been operating an unlicensed school using Russian-language instruction and ...

Ukraine’s security service is investigating whether a Kyiv monastery linked to the Moscow Patriarchate has been running an unlicensed school that used Russian-language and Soviet-era materials, ...

A shadow fleet of oil tankers is forging closer ties between Russia, Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E. WSJ explains how oil-rich nations in the Middle East are facilitating Russia’s oil trade despite ...

While both countries were allied with Nicolás Maduro, the U.S. attack could give them justification to use force in other spheres, analysts said. By Anton Troianovski Reporting from Washington After ...

The US capture of Venezuela's Nicolas Maduro is seen as a blow to Russia's influence and Vladimir Putin's prestige. Russia hopes US actions in the western hemisphere will give Moscow more latitude to ...