A surge of people converting to Orthodox Christianity is helping local parishes here buck the national trend of declining ...

(RNS) — The story of the Rev. Hilarion Alfeyev captures how a once robust effort to bring Russian Orthodox Christianity and the Catholic Church together has foundered. (RNS) — Diplomacy is back.

From 1957-66, worship was held in the old Parma city hall. In 1966, a new St. Vladimir Church at 5913 State Rd. in PARMA was completed, with the domes added in 1974. Several other Russian and ...

Ukraine's Minister of Culture and Strategic Communications, Mykola Tochytskyi, took part in events marking the 164th anniversary of Taras Shevchenko's reburial and visited St. George's Cathedral in ...

He was raised a Protestant and once worked as a roofer, but now serves as a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia ... It's almost as if the old American Puritans and their craziness ...

The remarkable legacy of Saint John the Russian continues to thrive in Greece, where his revered relics are enshrined in a ...

The history of the spiritual center began with the miraculous appearance of the Icon of the Mother of God. A legend has it that this happened in 1470.

But diplomacy has casualties, too, and one church diplomat whose career ... Last year, a 21-year-old Russian-Japanese Orthodox subdeacon, working in the Budapest diocese, George Suzuki, left ...

Recently, a number of media and public and on Ukraine, and beyond its borders, began to pay more and more attention to boxer ...

The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering turquoise of the Aegean Sea.