A monastery in Spain has allowed women to enter its choir for the first time in the past 700 years. Photo shows an illustrative image of Escolania de Montserrat, undated. Escolania de Montserrat is a boys' choir of sopranos and altos based at the Benedictine abbey Santa Maria de Montserrat…
A Christian monastery has caused an online stir by posting photos of its statue of the Virgin Mary apparently weeping blood. The Mosteiro Rosa Mistica (Rosa Mystica Monastery) in the Brazilian city of Teresina took to Instagram to post a series of photographs of its statue of the Virgin Mary…
The COVID-denying Russian priest who stormed a women’s monastery and set up a perimeter of Cossack fighters has now told Vladimir Putin to hand him power over the country or suffer a "full-scale spiritual war". Prominent Russian Orthodox priest Father Sergei Romanov, who was banned from preaching in public after…
Story By: Gheorghi Caraseni, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News This pretty student has been slammed by church leaders as “blasphemous” after posing outside a famous monastery full of monks while scantily dressed and brandishing a rifle. The student, identified as Alexandra B. from the village of Ciolanu in the south-eastern Romanian county of…
Story By: Ana Marjanovic, Sub-Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News Lumberjacks working in a forest owned by a monastery have found a tree with a ‘cross’ in the middle of the trunk which some believers have claimed is a “miracle”. The discovery was made while Novica and Ljubica Cuckic from Shilovo near the town of…
