A spokesman for the Russian Orthodox Church in St. Petersburg argued that the reclamation of museum-churches such as St. Isaac’s would remove a vestige of the former Soviet Union. “Some ...

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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 ...

The Ukrainian parliament passed a preliminary vote on Thursday for a bill that could ban the Ukrainian Orthodox ... Cathedral in St. Petersburg.” Since the 10th century, Russian and Ukrainian ...

The religious leader noted that Russian parishes ... back as the 19th century ST. PETERSBURG, July 27. /TASS/. The Patriarchal Exarchate of Africa of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) has opened ...

May 16 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to hand over the historic 15th-century Trinity icon from a museum to the Russian Orthodox Church because of its importance to ...

After half an hour, we saw a cluster of buildings topped by the distinctive onion domes of the Russian Orthodox Church: the St. Panteleimon Monastery. It is the most Russia-friendly monastery on ...