Since the start of the 200 churches program in 2010, more than twelve dozen churches have been built in Moscow, and another 200 are currently under construction.
A woman who paints icons for the famous Optina Pustyn Monastery in the Kaluga Province of Russia was wounded in a shooting near the monastery yesterday.
Nun Manetha (Sizintseva)
There is the “Holy Land syndrome”: if you have come here at least once, then you long to be here all the time.
Nadezhda Terekhova
On the Leavetaking of Pascha, we offer our readers these Paschal photographs from the Holy Transfiguration Monastery on Solovki, taken by artist and iconographer Nadezhda Terekhova.
The Church is rejoicing because finally, after 27 years of labors and legal battles, the Church’s most important case of antiquities theft after the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus has come to a close.