The rule of the Orthodox Monastery of Solan, in the Gard region, specifies: “Every day during Great Lent, we abstain from meat, milk, cheese, butter, eggs, and fish. Only one meal is taken from ...

A delegation of 47 parliamentarians from 10 countries visited St. Catherine’s Monastery ... As part of the Orthodox Parliamentary Assembly's official programme in Egypt, running from 10 March ...

Saint Anthony’s Monastery is built in the Arizona desert. Credit: Greek Reporter In 1995, six Orthodox monks left Mount Athos in Greece to establish Saint Anthony, an Orthodox Monastery in the middle ...

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish family takes part in the tashlich ritual, to symbolically cast away sins, ahead of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, in Ashdod, Israel, October 3, 2022.

The oldest icon of Jesus Christ and the Crucifixion is in St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, Egypt, from the 8th Century. As we know, the early Byzantine and post-Byzantine paintings continue the ...

Parts of Hackney’s Orthodox Jewish community have hit out against “excessive state intervention” in the borough’s faith schools, claiming new legislation could “erode religious freedom”.

After more than a century, the Poor Clares, an order of Roman Catholic nuns, have moved out of their historic monastery in the 700 block of Henry Clay Avenue near Audubon Park, leaving vacant an ...

Forgiveness Sunday, also known as Cheesefare Sunday, marks the final Sunday before the start of Great Lent in the Greek Orthodox Church. This day emphasizes the themes of Adam and Eve’s exile from ...

Ukrainian officials on Friday ordered a historically Russian-aligned wing of the Orthodox Church to leave a monastery complex in Kyiv where it is based, the latest move against a denomination regarded ...