The beards of Orthodox priests are some of their most striking attributes, marking them as different from other Western ...

For the past thousand years or so, a community of Eastern Orthodox monks has dwelled here, purposefully removed from everything except God. They live only to become one with Jesus Christ.

Bill proponents argue it would prevent extremism, while critics say it could worsen tensions between ethnic Estonians and ...

Inside the dazzling white Valamo monastery, the country's only Eastern Orthodox ... who gives a Christian Orthodox ...

With the intention of preserving Byzantine spiritual wisdom, Greek monk Nicodemus devoted his life to writing the massive tome Philokalia.

Oriental Orthodox churches, as differentiated from the Eastern Orthodox churches ... The Holy Father told the group of young priests and monks of the Oriental Orthodox churches, including Armenian ...

Pope Francis referred to a third meaning of the creed on the spiritual level and asked his listeners not to forget that the ...