The frescoes on the walls, which have withstood the years, are about to disappear due to neglect and damage caused by treasure hunters.
Richard Burgunder
Former extreme athlete and international relations expert, Richard Burgunder, 42, from Colorado, tells what it’s like to be a student in St. Petersburg - and explains why he decided to convert to Orthodoxy.
Brenda M. Hafera
American males are turning off, and tuning and dropping out.
From the end of the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th, when clergy and hierarchs of the Russian Church were sent to the North American Mission they were provided with Holy Chrism from Russia sufficient for pastoral needs.
The 60-year-old priest had served as rector of Holy Theophany Orthodox Church for nearly 30 years.
Conservatives have been so shaped by libertarian arguments that they wonder whether Satanism is protected by the Constitution.
Prime Minister Albin Kurti said court ruling awarding 24 hectares of land to the Visoki Decani Serbian Orthodox monastery must be implemented.
Kirk Durston
When a culture approves of sexual activity before marriage, researchers have found that monogamy, belief in God, and rational thinking tend to disappear within three generations.
Bishop Irenei went on to offer his thanks for the prayers and labours of his brother-Hierarch.
You walk into another world, that of “superluminous darkness,” darkness that is not the absence of light but light mostly beyond the ability of the human eye to see. Yet not beyond the ability to feel.
124 artifacts made of stone, ceramics, and metal were discovered during archaeological excavations in the Church of the Holy Mother in the town of Melnik in the Blagoevgrad province of southwestern Bulgaria.
Bulgaria’s euro coinage will depict two Bulgarian Orthodox saints as well as a 7th or 8th century rock relief dating found in the country’s northeast.
In the summer of 2023, 13 men from Lancaster's Annunciation Orthodox Church spent 13 days in Greece as pilgrims on the Holy Mountain.
This sacred site serves as a sanctuary for those grappling with physical and mental suffering, offering a haven of solace and prayer.
Scientists are debating if a fresco depicting a smiling Virgin Mary in the Gumusler Monastery in Cappadocia, Turkey is original or the result of a restoration gone wrong.
Examining the book: Το Mυστήριο του Χριστού (The Mystery of Christ), written by the Cell of the Resurrection on Mount Athos, this lecture series aims to bring the Athonite catechism to English speakers for the first time.
For some or most things in life, you can never prepare yourself fully, but we have to trust that God will be there.
A special find has been made in the Alkmaar Regional Archive: A number of 17th-century book bindings contained pieces of parchment from a manuscript from the 11th century.
St. Paisios’ words to a Greek Orthodox seminary graduate would apply today.
The church lies within the Alaska Native village of Eklutna, and many are buried there.