Polotsk is hosting celebrations marking the 900th anniversary of the founding of St. Euphrosyne Convent. The convent is a gem of Orthodox architecture and houses relics that are an integral part of ...

In a Moscow suburb, locals have been battling against city officials and the Russian Orthodox Church to stop construction of a new church in a city park. This construction project is part of a plan to ...

The remarkable legacy of Saint John the Russian continues to thrive in Greece, where his revered relics are enshrined in a ...

The Kremlin authorities are unenthusiastic about the prospect of peace talks being held in the Vatican. Sergey Lavrov argued ...

The Russian Orthodox Church, which has long had a broad influence ... while one Russian promotional movie claimed that after the eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano, which paralyzed ...

She told Reagan about the cultural influence of the Russian Orthodox Church despite the Soviet Union ... Reagan used it with Gorbachev at their summit in Iceland, and “Trust but verify ...

Vladimir Putin met the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, on Tuesday with gifts he asked the Patriarch to bless for troops fighting in Ukraine. The meeting at a Christmas ...

Last month, the Ukrainian parliament overwhelmingly approved a proposal to ban the activities of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and compel the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) to break all ties ...

We took off from Iceland and flew northeast ... and representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church have applied to build a chapel in Vardø, despite no local demand for services.

Pope Francis on Sunday sharply denounced the Ukrainian government’s recently enacted ban on Russian Orthodox Church worship, arguing that the faithful should not be barred from worshipping as ...

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 ...

Russian Orthodox Church suspends Navalny memorial priest 04/24/2024 April 24, 2024 The leader of Russia's Orthodox Church has suspended the priest who led a memorial service for Kremlin critic ...