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A young transgender man is suing an Orthodox monk from Greece's monastic community of Mount Athos (Agion Oros).

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Monarch’s favoured liturgical artist repairs Greek Orthodox chapel at Scottish castle that is home to the popular BBC reality ...

The abbots and abbesses of 39 monasteries in Greece and Mount Athos have issued an open letter supporting the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate).

The opening of 600 positions for Greek Orthodox priests in the diaspora is expected soon, Proto Thema reported. To date, a ...

Greece’s mobilization to strengthen the churches of the Diaspora by appointing a few hundred priests comes at a time when the ‘tug-of-war’ between Moscow and the Ecumenical Patriarchate over the ...

After spending seven years in Constantinople and Mount Athos, he returned to Bulgaria and founded a monastery near the Holy Trinity Church in Turnovo, where he established the Tarnovo Literary School.

Visit the homepage for more information. The monks’ republic situated on the peninsula of Mount Athos in the north-western region of Greece was founded in 963 and is home to twenty monasteries with ...

JAKARTA, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Authorities have begun evacuating 3,000 residents near the Mount Ibu volcano on Indonesia's eastern island of Halmahera, the disaster agency said on Thursday ...

The nearby Sengar Chode Monastery, founded in 1541, is home to a number of relics, which have since been moved into the custody of county officials, Global Times reported.

At least two Tibetan Buddhism monastic centers were severely damaged in Tibet, with an unknown number of monks and nuns hurt, according to the few state media reports on the damage to religious ...