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 ...

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 ...

A Russian Orthodox priest has been arrested in St. Petersburg over a 2014 photograph showing him ... Savchenko says he was detained directly at his church. He was charged with displaying banned ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Russian Orthodox priest has been arrested ... Nikolai Savchenko posted on social media that police officers stormed his church in St Petersburg during Sunday service to detain him.

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 ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has given the Russian Orthodox Church possession of the country's most valuable religious icon. Putin gifted the icon – Andrei Rublev's "Trinity" – to the care ...