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 ...

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.

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 ...

MOSCOW - Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II has consecrated 18 newly cast brass bells destined for Harvard University in a trade that will return the originals to Russia nearly 80 years after they ...

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 ...

MOUNT ATHOS, Greece — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea. Rising from the rugged granite rock, its walls enclose a ...

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 ...

Ukraine's Orthodox Christians, divided by war and politics, stake their claim to the country's most important religious site — Kyiv's Caves Monastery. Around the world, Orthodox Christians are ...