The Monastery of the Caves, also known as Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, one of the holiest sites of Eastern Orthodox Christians, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 23, 2023. Tensions are on the rise at a ...

Believers also gathered in Kyiv at Ukraine’s oldest monastery, the Monastery of the Caves, designated as a lavra, a major monastery. Normally, the acting head of the lavra, Metropolitan Pavel, would ...

TASS/. The Kiev-Pechersk Lavra has been registered as a monastery within the schismatic Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), with OCU leader Epiphanius (Dumenko) heading the monastery as a legal ...