Russia’s Orthodox Church has launched theological programs in the cities of Yekaterinburg and Rostov-on-Don aimed at training ...

The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea.

Clinging almost impossibly to a sheer cliff in northern Greece, the Monastery of Simonos Petra, also known as Simonopetra — ...

Mount Athos, a verdant peninsula in northern Greece, has been a center of Christian Orthodox monasticism for more than 1,000 ...

The Monastery of Simonos Petra clings almost impossibly to a sheer cliff above the Aegean Sea in northern Greece.

President of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, presented today in Moscow to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill the Order ...

Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls enclose a diverse Christian Orthodox community. The Monastery of Simonos ... of the 20 monasteries, one is Russian, one is Bulgarian and one is ...

The monastery is one of 20 in the autonomous all-male monastic community of Mount Athos, known in Greek as Agion Oros, or ...

Also known as Simonopetra or Simon's Rock, the Christian Orthodox monastery transcends country ... Of the 20 monasteries, one is Russian, one is Bulgarian and one is Serbian, and the presence ...