The increasingly powerful Russian Orthodox Church has built hundreds of new churches over the past decade. But some people in ...

The Soviet secret police were particularly brutal in Ukraine, given that it was a country with a long history of resistance ...

The cardinals would sit in a hall in a half circle with the dean of the college of cardinals, the Italian Giovanni Battista, ...

Nadya Tolokonnikova calls the two-week residency at the Museum of Contemporary Art her first durational performance ...

A decade after her highly publicized imprisonment in Russia, Pussy Riot co-founder Nadya Tolokonnikova is making a deliberate ...

Nadya Tolokonnikova talks about her new art show “Police State,” losing herself in a Russian penal colony, plus the need for activists to speak up despite risks.

One of the most important shifts in history was the spread of Christianity by the Greeks from the Byzantine Empire into ...

The triptych was purchased for the Louvre by the Society of Friends of the Louvre from the private collection of New York ...

The news of the number of parish transfers comes as Ukrainian officials begin to assess the UOC’s ties to the Russian Orthodox Church. This is said to have alarmed Moscow’s leadership and prompted the ...

Deep in southeastern Albania, a tiny hamlet holds five churches that have one of the most magnificent concentrations of Orthodox Christian fresco art in the world. From the outside, the churches ...

Supreme authority resided in the Ecumenical Council. Each patriarchy was identified by region or nationality, such as Greek Orthodox or Russian Orthodox. Such designations were really a convenient but ...