Orthodox Monastery News Today

To mark the beginning of Advent, the custos of the Holy Land and the Franciscan friars made their annual procession into the city of Bethlehem.

Russian documentary The Holy Archipelago won the main award at the film festival in the United States because it was of superior quality and offered a different view of Russia, Executive Director of the Great Lakes Christian Film Festival in Buffalo, Shawn Patrick Greene, told Sputnik.

His Excellency Andrei Muraru, Romanian ambassador to the United States, visited the Orthodox Monastery of the Transfiguration Monday, Nov. 13, 2023.

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A woman’s monastery based in Roscommon is seeking permission to carry out alterations and erect an extension to a chapel on its grounds.

On January 10, 2023 at the suggestion of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate elevated His Grace Bishop Dimitrios of Xanthos to the rank of Metropolitan and, as such, the see of Xanthos to the rank of Metropolis in his person. On January 10, 2023 at the suggestion of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the Holy and Sacred Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate elevated His Grace Bishop Dimitrios of Xanthos...

The Russian foreign ministry criticised Ukraine as "godless", "wild" and "immoral" on Wednesday for raiding an old Orthodox Christian Monastery in Kyiv.

Der ukrainische Präsident Selenskyj verlässt im Krieg aus Sicherheitsgründen nur selten seine Hauptstadt. Bei der Rückkehr von einer Reise in den Osten kommt es zu einem Zwischenfall. Alle aktuellen News zum Ukraine-Krieg lesen Sie hier.

(RNS) — The renowned and popular Orthodox Christian theologian of recent decades died Wednesday (Aug. 24) at 87.

A 16th century Orthodox monastery has been burned to the ground after shelling by Russian artillery in eastern Ukraine, says Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, but Russian media and supporters claim Ukrainian nationalists set it ablaze, as Moscow’s ongoing invasion carries on for more than 100 days.