Above all, Putin has made use of the Russian Orthodox Church and its leader, Patriarch Kirill, much the way Donald Trump made use of evangelical leaders, to establish his traditionalist bona fides.

On July 23, one of Ukraine’s largest churches, the Orthodox cathedral in Odessa, was seriously damaged by a Russian missile strike. The strike highlighted one of the lingering enigmas of Russian ...

Certain Eastern Orthodox churches, including those in Russian and other traditions, follow the ancient Julian calendar, which runs 13 days later than the Gregorian calendar, used by Catholic and ...

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 ...