On the third day of Easter, I stood in front of the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Kiev, Ukraine. With me was a prominent scholar of American religion who was visiting Eastern Europe for the first time. We ...

MOSCOW—At the top of the bell tower of Danilov Monastery, fruit flies buzz around the dark metal bells and a cool breeze sweeps off the nearby Moscow river. The 11 bells hang in heavy silence, far ...

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 ...

DULUTH (AP) -- For close to half a century, Sam Miscevich has rung the bells of St. George Serbian Orthodox Church. Every Sunday the bells ring from the tower of the church that's set on a hill in ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

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.

SOUTH CANAAN TWP. – They came from near and far Saturday, called by faith to the 113th annual pilgrimage at St. Tikhon of Zadonsk Orthodox Monastery. America’s oldest Orthodox monastery, St. Tikhon’s ...

Prayer service at the Cathedral of the Assumption, after the "enthronement" of Czar Putin. Prayers of the Patriarch of Moscow, joined by those of the Novodevichy Monastery, where the nuns sing psalms ...

The bells of Lowell House at Harvard–so much a part of the university’s tradition that they have their own society of bell ringers–will soon return to the Russian monastery from which they were sold ...

There is nothing unusual about turning a corner in West Virginia's maze of rough mountain roads and seeing churches with plain white walls and big porches.