On the third day of Easter, I stood in front of the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Kiev, Ukraine. With me was a prominent scholar of American religion who was visiting Eastern Europe for the first time. We ...

MOSCOW – More than 10 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian Orthodox Church is still recovering from damage done to its churches and monasteries. Last week, the church and its ...

Five Russian Orthodox bells are on their way from Voronezh, Russia, to St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in McKees Rocks. The bronze bells, ranging in size from 9 pounds to 42 pounds, were shipped last ...

DULUTH (AP) -- For close to half a century, Sam Miscevich has rung the bells of St. George Serbian Orthodox Church. Every Sunday the bells ring from the tower of the church that's set on a hill in ...

As the sun began to rise high above the wine-dark Aegean Sea, the twelve bells of Great Lavra monastery on Mount Athos pealed out a welcome. In the rock-strewn bay at the foot of the 500-ft.

SOUTH CANAAN TWP. – They came from near and far Saturday, called by faith to the 113th annual pilgrimage at St. Tikhon of Zadonsk Orthodox Monastery. America’s oldest Orthodox monastery, St. Tikhon’s ...

The annual celebration marking the martyrdom of Saint Catherine began on Monday at Saint Catherine’s Monastery, with the ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A set of church bells rang out for the first time on Friday after being returned to Moscow's oldest monastery from the United States nearly 80 years after they were sold off as ...

It’s finally back to Russia for a set of antique Russian bells that have been on the Harvard University campus since 1930. After escaping imminent destruction by Soviet authorities, the bells have ...

A set of antique bells given to Harvard University in 1930 is creating a bigger din than officials want to hear. The bells once belonged to Moscow’s Saint Danilov Monastery, thought to be the oldest ...

The relics of St. Peter of Argos, a tenth-century bishop and miracle-worker, have been returned to the town of which he is patron saint, the Katherimini newspaper reports. The relics were taken to ...

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 ...