Saint Matrona was born in 1881 in the village of Sebino, Tula province, as a blind girl — her eyelids were tightly closed, ...

St. Theodore the Studite Memorial Day is an important event in the Orthodox calendar that reminds believers of the ...

Mount Athos is facing mounting pressure from overtourism, with monastic authorities warning that overcrowding and increased ...

The agency claims the alleged attempt was intended to derail ongoing negotiations between Russia and the United States over ...

Visitor numbers on Greece's Mount Athos hit new records in 2025, raising concerns over overcrowding and loss of spiritual ...

Send Vogue when you have finished with it,” the teenage Margaret ­Thatcher (then Margaret Roberts) writes impatiently to her sister Muriel, underlining the imperative in one of a series of letters ...

Dame and the Sagrada Familia to Canterbury and the Duomo di Milano, here's our round-up of the best cathedrals in the world.

Pope Leo XIV is set to embark on his first trip abroad with a visit to Turkey, marking a key event in Catholic and Orthodox ...

CORRECTION: The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Porfirije, met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and ...

A 2024 survey by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology found that 56% of Orthodox Ukrainians identified with the ...

POPE Francis and the head of the Russian Orthodox Church are putting aside their differences to hold a historic meeting in Cuba next week. THE Vatican and the Moscow Patriarchate announced on Friday ...

If that young lady behind the counter at a new bakery shop in Mount Airy looks familiar, it might be due to Anna Simeonides’ television appearances on the Food Network ...