Spread across green hills above the Dnieper River in the Ukrainian capital, the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra is one of the oldest and most revered centres of Eastern Slavic Christianity. Its

High in the mountains of northern Ethiopia, more than two and a half thousand metres above sea level, stands one of the most astonishing achievements in the history of Christian

On a long, mountainous peninsula reaching into the Aegean Sea in northern Greece lies one of the most extraordinary religious communities on earth. Mount Athos, known in Greek as the

In this article A monastery on the brink of a chasm The flight across the gorge Stones raised in the ninth century A university in the mountains The swinging pillar

Source: Pixabay Częstochowa is the centre of pilgrimage life in Poland, and walking pilgrimages to Jasna Góra are among the country’s most cherished traditions. Each year hundreds of thousands of

Source: Pixabay For Catholics across the Americas, a pilgrimage to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe is among the most meaningful journeys they can make. The shrine in Mexico

Source: Pixabay A pilgrimage to Knock is woven into Irish Catholic life, and the shrine’s steady stream of visitors reflects its place in the nation’s devotion. For travellers, Knock also

Source: Pixabay Why do millions of pilgrims travel to a small, dimly lit church in the heart of Jerusalem? For Christians, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is not simply

There is a moment, somewhere on the winding road up into the Rila Mountains, when the forest suddenly opens and the monastery appears all at once, white and striped and

Source: Pixabay In a remote granite valley in the south of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula stands Saint Catherine’s Monastery, one of the oldest continuously inhabited Christian monasteries in the world. Built