Nuns walk in the basement they have prepared to take shelter when air raids go off, at the Hoshiv Women Monastery, where nuns have been taking in internally displaced people fleeing the war, in ...

On arrival in Lviv the family was met by volunteers who brought them to the Monastery, their new home for the foreseeable future. Mykyta had never been to a monastery before, nor did he know very much ...

Diners at the Monastery Restaurant on a Sunday evening. Owners Anna and Adolf Jerabek left Czechoslovakia in 1967, opened the Monastery in New York, then shifted to Norfolk in the early 1980s ...

“Everything in the monastery is focused on prayer and order,” Sister Dominica explained. But when the Russian invasion began, they told local officials they could host up to 50 displaced people.

Nuns eat dinner, at the Hoshiv Women Monastery, where they have been taking in internally displaced families fleeing the war, in Ivano-Frankivsk region, western Ukraine, Wednesday, April 6, 2022.

Beneath the ancient beech forests of the Carpathian Mountains, a quiet monastery in the western Ukrainian village of Hoshiv has transformed itself into a giant playground for a dozen children who ...

“Everything in the monastery is focused on prayer and order,” Sister Dominica explained. But when the Russian invasion began, they told local officials they could host up to 50 displaced people.