Abbot Xuecheng is one of China's most high-profile monks and has a huge social media following A high-ranking Chinese monk has denied accusations he sexually harassed nuns and coerced them into ...

The Holy Martyrs of China were native Chinese Orthodox Christians brought up in piety at the Russian Orthodox Mission in Peking, which had been founded in 1685. During the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 ...

Via Elizabeth Scalia, here’s a story, with astonishing photos, of Orthodox monks (including no doubt priest-monks) in Kiev, keeping vigil between riot police and protesters, trying to prevent ...

Michigan philanthropist Manoj Bhargava made a fortune on his path to enlightenment, and he doesn’t want to share it with the ...

The life and adventures of a Chinese monk who made a 17-year journey to bring Buddhist teachings from India to China. Xuanzang subsequently became a main character in the great Chinese epic Journey to ...

a Polish nobleman whom the Chinese called ‘the wise Khan’. During a fair held every year at the fort, the Tsar’s official had raped Czernichowski’s daughter Pelagia, the wife of an Orthodox priest.

These Martyrs, men of high rank in the Roman (Byzantine) army, were taken captive when the city of Amorion in Phrygia fell to the Moslem Arabs in 838, during the reign of Theophilus the Iconoclast.

The government defines what is orthodox ... estimated that close to 3,000 monks and nuns were expelled from their monasteries and nunneries in 1996 and 1997. Chinese officials regularly vilify ...

Police said on Wednesday that the monks belonging to the Coptic Orthodox Church were fatallay stabbed and a suspect has been arrested. The monks were killed on Tuesday at the Saint Mark the ...

ISTANBUL (RNS) — Monks are preparing for a major raid on Mount Athos, the Greek mountain considered a sacred site for Eastern ...

Monks in the Coptic Orthodox Church, one of the world's oldest churches, devote their lives to prayer and spiritual growth.