The independent Orthodox Church of Ukraine on Jan. 7 held a Christmas service at the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, Ukraine's main Orthodox monastery, for the first time. Previously the entire Lavra was ...

The Commercial Court of Kyiv has recognised the termination of the contract of free use concluded between the Holy Dormition Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (men's monastery) of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of ...

Nearly 1,000 years ago, when Kyiv was the capital of a kingdom known as Kyivan Rus ruled by Prince Yaroslav the Wise, several Orthodox Christian monks were granted permission to build a church on a ...

Metropolitan Pavel stressed that the monastery was ready to cooperate with the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Historical and Cultural Reserve, but dismissed suspicions that the monks intended to remove the ...

Ukraine has ordered Moscow-affiliated clerics to leave Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, the country’s most important Orthodox monastery, by the end of March. Here is background on the site and the developments ...

It is underscored that there are no grounds for expulsion of the monks who live here and are registered here MOSCOW, March 29. /TASS/. Monks from the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra will not leave the monastery, ...

Ukraine looks set to double down on its efforts to root out potential Russian agents and saboteurs. In a highly unusual move, the SBU counterintelligence service, police officers, and the country’s ...

(RNS) — The monastery’s fate has been in question since Russia’s invasion in February 2022 has brought a series of crackdowns on the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which has historical ties to Moscow.

(RNS) — Dozens of Orthodox Christians who support their church’s historic ties to Moscow prevented Ukrainian authorities from taking possession of buildings at the Monastery of the Caves in Kyiv, ...

A documentary on the Orthodox Church in Ukraine. The Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra is one of the oldest and most valuable treasures inherited from Kyivan Rus. It has always been revered worldwide as the most ...

Metropolitan Epiphanius of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) is to hold an Easter service at the Dormition Cathedral in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (the Monastery of the Caves). [Orthodox Easter is ...