Recently, Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, blessed the Russian soldiers who are invading Ukraine at a lavish service. Kirill said, "We need to be very strong. When I say 'we,' I ...
EKLUTNA, Alaska — The Russian Orthodox church on the outskirts of Alaska’s biggest city is packed with treasures for the Christian faithful: religious icons gifted by Romanov czars, panels of oil ...
Last weekend, at a special midnight service in a packed church in Udine, in northeast Italy, a priest led his flock of Ukrainian, Russian and Eastern European immigrants through their usual Orthodox ...
LONDON, June 8 (Reuters) - Russia's Orthodox Church has ousted its second most powerful bishop from his role in charge of foreign relations and sent him to Budapest, an abrupt decision indicating ...
HONG KONG—Russian leader Vladimir Putin embraced symbols of his country’s imperial past and the Russian Orthodox Church as he sought to underpin his rule and geopolitical ambitions during a visit to a ...
The entryway to St. Vladimir Russian Orthodox Church in Miami, 101 NW 46th Ave., Florida’s oldest Russian Orthodox Church, founded in 1947. PEDRO PORTAL When Andrew Andreyev walks through the white ...
The Russian Orthodox Church presents itself as a moral pillar of society and a defender of Christian tradition. But a recent ...
Olivia Durand receives research funding from Freie Universität Berlin, where she is a postdoctoral visting fellow alongside her position at the University of Oxford. Pope Francis’s video speech to the ...
(RNS) — Lawmakers in Estonia’s Parliament are debating a draft bill that would effectively require the Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, the Russian Orthodox Church’s presence in ...
MOSCOW, Jan 5 (Reuters) - Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, called on Thursday for both sides of the war in Ukraine to observe a Christmas truce, a step dismissed by ...
EKLUTNA, Alaska (AP) — The Russian Orthodox church was established in Alaska on Kodiak Island in 1794 and missionaries spread the faith, baptizing an estimated 18,000 Alaska Natives. EKLUTNA, Alaska ...