where the three-barred cross of the Russian Orthodox Church marks each grave; and making pictures of the Old Believers in their prayer clothes. Dmitriy Polevchuk collects blueberries from a swamp ...

The Ukrainian parliament passed a preliminary vote on Thursday for a bill that could ban the Ukrainian Orthodox ... ditching Old Church Slavonic, still used by the Russian Church.

EKLUTNA, Alaska — The Russian ... old St. Nicholas Church, which is the oldest standing building in the Municipality of Anchorage. Credit: AP/Mark Thiessen The presence of the Russian Orthodox ...

The war in Ukraine has accelerated a restructuring of religious life across the country that aims to untangle itself from Russian ... old. At the end of July, leaders of the new Orthodox Church ...

ANTALYA, Turkey — Standing in an old Orthodox church in Antalya with a Bible in one hand and a candle in the other, the Rev. Ioann Koval led one of his first services in Turkey after Russian ...

In a Moscow suburb, locals have been battling against city officials and the Russian Orthodox Church to stop construction of a new church in a city park. This construction project is part of a plan to ...

Ukrainian officials are cracking down on a branch of the Russian Orthodox Church ... the Refectory Church — in the Monastery of the Caves complex in Kyiv, a thousand-year-old catacomb cradling ...

The Russian Orthodox church ... Unique among them is the old Eklutna church, where graves incorporate religious conventions like Orthodox crosses, which have three cross beams with the lowest ...

EKLUTNA, Alaska (AP) — The Russian Orthodox church ... Unique among them is the old Eklutna church, where graves incorporate religious conventions like Orthodox crosses, which have three cross ...