Monks have been seeking spiritual enlightenment at these sites on steep cliffs, inside caves and atop an extinct volcano for ...

Read past the jump if you’re interestd. On June 6, a young man considering becoming a monk arrived at the Orthodox Christian Monastery of St. John in Manton, California, and began to chronicle ...

Ladan Cher visits St. Catherine’s Monastery at Mt. Sinai and talks about the monks’ manuscript preservation efforts: Just as they have done for 17 centuries, the Greek Orthodox monks of St ...

Greek monks were trying to build monasteries in places that were hidden or difficult to access in order to protect them from ...

It wasn’t until the 13th century that the monastery as we know it today was founded by Orthodox monks during a period when ...

For many diaspora communities, churches serve as the chief vehicle for community organizing and advocacy, but since the late 1970s, the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America ...