My writer friend Paul Kingsnorth tips me off to a marvelous project in rural Ireland: the establishment of an Orthodox women’s monastery by some Romanian nuns. The Orthodox Monastery of the ...
Russia has seen an explosion in the number of Orthodox convents over the past two decades. After the 1917 revolution, all were closed. Some women continued to live as nuns in secret, but with the end ...
MOSCOW -- The Russian Orthodox Church is struggling to wrest back control of a convent in the Urals after a cleric it suspended for disobeying its coronavirus-prevention policies occupied the compound ...
The Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (MPEÕK) and the Pühtitsa Convent have filed separate complaints with the Tallinn Administrative Court. These complaints seek to address the ...
The Kuremäe Convent, which operates directly under the authority of the patriarch of Moscow and all Russia (known as a stavropegial convent), responded to a request from the Ministry of the Interior ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...
TANACU, Romania — The whispers started in April in the mind of the 23-year-old nun. In the heart of an Orthodox convent in Romania’s impoverished northeast, doctors say, Maricica Irina Cornici ...
CLARKSTOWN - A fire destroyed a cottage on the property of a Russian Orthodox convent in Nanuet today. The blaze broke out in a candle-making area of a one-story building at the Novo-Diveevo convent ...
TANACU, Romania — The whispers started in April in the mind of the 23-year-old nun. In the heart of an Orthodox convent in Romania’s impoverished northeast, doctors say, Maricica Irina Cornici ...