participants in a religious procession around St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg. The Russian Orthodox Church is lobbying to take control of this 19th century monument from the city ...

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Tolstoy seemed to be linking the recent protest in St. Petersburg with the revolutions in 1917, events that led to the Orthodox Church losing much of its power in Russia. But for many in Russia ...

The Russian Orthodox Church's bid to secure the restitution of the landmark St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg is creating a controversy. The church has wielded increasing clout in Russia and ...

And, of course, the Russian Orthodox Church is always with its people ... Since April 2023, this role has been held by St.

HOWELL - The head of the Russian Orthodox Church outside of Russia journeyed to a small residential neighborhood in Howell Tuesday, enrobed in ornate vestments to bless the renovated St. George's ...

ST. THEODOSIUS RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL (733 Starkweather Ave.) is considered one of the finest examples of Russian church architecture in the U.S. Begun in 1911, the cathedral is the parish's third ...

In recent days admirers had heaped flowers on makeshift shrines to Prigozhin in Moscow, St Petersburg and elsewhere ... Prigozhin's business empire. A Russian Orthodox priest said prayers and ...

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 ...