Archimandrite Avraamii of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the acting Abbot of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves), has said that the brethren are praying for Ukrainian President Volodymyr ...

Nestled on the rugged cliffs along the Kura River Valley in southern Georgia is one of the most unusual and astonishing medieval monasteries in the world: Vardzia. Carved entirely into the rock of ...

Metropolitan Pavlo (Lebid), Abbot of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra (Kyiv Monastery of the Caves), has said that the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) searched his house on 1 April and served him with a ...

The Ministry of Culture and Tourism opened access to the caves and relics in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC MP). This was reported by the ...

KIEV, UKRAINE — The workers standing on ladders at one of the Monastery of the Caves’ churches weren’t fixing it up for visitors to Ukraine’s top tourist draw -- they were trying to keep bricks from ...

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 ...

Since last December, cement manufacturer Associated Pan Malaysia Cement has been looking to evict dozens of monks and devotees from the Dhamma Sakyamuni Caves Monastery in the limestone hills of Mount ...

KIEV, Ukraine | The workers standing on ladders at one of the Monastery of the Caves' churches weren't fixing it up for visitors to Ukraine's top tourist draw -- they were trying to keep bricks from ...

With its priceless relics and sacred past, there is arguably no holier place in Kyiv than the Kyivan Caves Monastery. Below a cluster of golden onion domes aboveground, monks lived, worked, and died ...