How the country’s patron saint earned his reputation as a protector. Days into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, one Ukrainian Orthodox leader reminded his church where they ought to direct their ...

Historian and architecture expert William Brumfield discovers the connections between the Russian monarchy and this monument to the Orthodox ... Cathedral, Archangel Michael Cathedral, Bell ...

The leader of the Orthodox ... battled invading Russian forces. 1 An Orthodox icon drawn on an armored plate with a bullet hole is displayed at a consecration ceremony at St. Michael's Golden ...

calling the structure's rededication for the Russian Orthodox Church a "sacrilege." The Church of St. Archstrategist Michael, located in the village of Oleksandrivka in the occupied Kherson region ...

Icons are stylised, often gilded religious paintings considered sacred in Eastern Orthodox Churches. Andrei Rublyov's Trinity, one of the holiest and most artistically important Russian icons ...

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 ...