The monks living at the remote 15th century Romanian Orthodox monastery, a pilgrimage site that sits in a valley covered in dense forest, have opened its doors to people like Svetlana who have ...

PLOPII-SLAVITESTI, Romania -- To her fans gathered at a medieval monastery in Romania's rural south, Diana Iovanovici Sosoaca is "the mother of the nation." Wearing a traditional folk costume ...

The food was reportedly donated by the Floresti monastery. In July, Romania grappled with a nationwide scandal after a media investigation revealed that hundreds of elderly people were being ...

A trainee nun who was crucified in an exorcism at a monastery in eastern Romania and left to die has been buried in a religious ceremony. The novice, Maricica Irina Cornici, died last week after being ...

Romania thus becomes the second Orthodox country to host the relics of Saint Empress Helena since they were moved to the West. The event takes place in the context of the annual pilgrimage organized ...

The Monastery of Simonos Petra ... from European countries where Orthodoxy is the predominant religion, such as Romania, Serbia, Russia, Moldova, Cyprus and Greece. But there are others from ...