monastery

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She added she had come to the monastery with her “personal pain and personal requests to God for victory, peace and life.”

From Washington Times

For the next decade, she barely left the monastery grounds, where she slept in a hut on a dried-mud bed.

From Washington Post

Tensions around the UOC have spiked over the past two weeks as authorities seek to evict the church from a historic Kyiv monastery.

From Reuters

In the mid-1980s, she left Ethiopia and settled into an Ethiopian Orthodox monastery in Jerusalem, spending the rest of her life there.

From New York Times

Inside his apartment on the monastery grounds, he pointed to walls once covered in icons, now dotted with just bare nails.

From Washington Post