For the past thousand years or so, a community of Eastern Orthodox monks has dwelled here, purposefully removed from everything except God. They live only to become one with Jesus Christ.

The proclamation of the common faith requires, first of all, that we love one another,” the Holy Father said in a Feb. 6 ...

Martin, pope of Rome, Eastern monks played an important role in the proceedings ... As the Saracens moved eastward in their conquest of the island, Orthodox Italo-Greek inhabitants, among them many ...

Inside the dazzling white Valamo monastery, the country's only Eastern Orthodox abbey ... expanding from around 10 monks to ...

It is an Anglican contemplative monastic community. The community has sought to recover something of the unity of Christianity and as such has looked at both Eastern and Western traditions of ...