MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The Monastery of Simonos Petra clings almost impossibly to a sheer cliff above the Aegean Sea in northern Greece. Also known as Simonopetra or Simon’s Rock, the Christian ...

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CAMBRIDGE, New York After he and his fellow monks sang morning prayers in their church nestled in a forest, Brother Luke walked back to his residence to be greeted by a different kind of choir. Lucy ...

WILLIAMSTON - The chanting of sacred songs fills a home, interrupted occasionally by the creak of wooden floors or the trill of wind chimes on the front porch. The smell of incense in the small chapel ...

The first nun the Bolsheviks threw into the abandoned mine shaft was best known as the Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, the sister of the Russian Empress Alexandra. After the 1905 assassination of ...

Immediately after his inauguration as president of the Russian Federation in May 2008, Dmitry Medvedev proceeded to a Kremlin church, where Patriarch Aleksy II blessed him and gave him an icon of the ...

Bishop Epiphanius' body was found July 29, 2018, with injuries to his head and back that suggest that he had been hit by a sharp object. The tomb where the relics of St. John the Baptist were found in ...

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Immediately after his inauguration as president of the Russian Federation in May 2008, Dmitry Medvedev proceeded to a Kremlin church, where Patriarch Aleksy II blessed him and gave him an icon of the ...