MASNA, Lebanon – Rebels in Syria freed more than a dozen Greek Orthodox nuns on Monday, ending their four-month captivity in exchange for Syrian authorities releasing dozens of female prisoners. The ...

Police in southern Greece are hunting the killers of two elderly nuns found suffocated in their hillside convent. They were the sole occupants of the 17th century monastery of the Assumption of the ...

Rarely do nature and architecture combine so perfectly as they do at the divine Greek monasteries of Meteora. The site is a collection of Greek Orthodox monasteries perched on rock pillars 1,300 feet ...

The Daphni Monastery in Athens is one of the greatest Byzantine masterpieces and an example of architecture and religious iconography.

For nearly 20 years, St. John the Forerunner Greek Orthodox Monastery has sat just off the highway near Goldendale. Enclosed in woods, the complex is home to 22 nuns and novices who have devoted ...

The four nuns who make up the Holy Theotokos Convent, about 50 km north of Toronto, thrive on beeswax, baked goods and some sewing on the side. Their convent, tucked into 20 acres of picturesque ...