where the three-barred cross of the Russian Orthodox Church marks each grave; and making pictures of the Old Believers in their prayer clothes. Dmitriy Polevchuk collects blueberries from a swamp ...

EKLUTNA, Alaska — The Russian ... old St. Nicholas Church, which is the oldest standing building in the Municipality of Anchorage. Credit: AP/Mark Thiessen The presence of the Russian Orthodox ...

The war in Ukraine has accelerated a restructuring of religious life across the country that aims to untangle itself from Russian ... old. At the end of July, leaders of the new Orthodox Church ...

ANTALYA, Turkey — Standing in an old Orthodox church in Antalya with a Bible in one hand and a candle in the other, the Rev. Ioann Koval led one of his first services in Turkey after Russian ...

Orthodox Christmas – and the long-standing rift between the Russian Orthodox Church ... of an independent Orthodox Church of Ukraine and revoked a centuries-old agreement that granted the ...

Christmas is under way for Christians following Orthodox traditions. In Ethiopia, crowds gathered to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ while Egypt’s Coptic Christians also went to church to ...

The Russian Orthodox church ... Unique among them is the old Eklutna church, where graves incorporate religious conventions like Orthodox crosses, which have three cross beams with the lowest ...

EKLUTNA, Alaska (AP) — The Russian Orthodox church ... Unique among them is the old Eklutna church, where graves incorporate religious conventions like Orthodox crosses, which have three cross ...