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 ...

such as Greek Orthodox or Russian Orthodox. Such designations were really a convenient but inaccurate way of saying, for example, the "Eastern Orthodox churches of the Greek Rite." Thus, the Orthodox ...

He was a shoemaker from Sarajevo who, on Sundays, sang in the choir at the Old Orthodox Church in Sarajevo. His memory was preserved by Đuro Pucar “Stari,” a later communist official of ...

he even opted to meet with Russian Patriarch Kirill, the head of the country’s Orthodox Church. During their exchange in Cuba in February 2016, the two religious leaders issued a joint statement. The ...

After the group’s anti-Putin, balaclava-wearing, punk-inspired performance at Moscow’s main Orthodox Cathedral in 2012, she spent nearly two years in Russian prison. On her release ...

The exclusion of the Orthodox crosses is likely to displease the Russian leader. The incident comes as relations between Putin and the Chechen leader are reported to have deteriorated in recent ...

Credit: Seyhan668, CC BY-SA 4.0/Wikipedia The Agios Nikolaos Church, also known as the Adana Greek Orthodox Church, has been transformed into a public library, in the latest twist of its nearly ...

FILE PHOTO: Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Russia looks on in the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius monastery in the town of Sergiyev Posad 30,899 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can ...

The film has several prominent references to the role of the Russian Orthodox Church in Russian identity. But since the 2012 demonstrations protesting his return to the presidency, Putin has ...

The leader of Russia's Orthodox Church sent his congratulations to Pope Leo XIV on Friday, saying he hoped the newly elected American pontiff would help foster ties between their churches. "I ...

MOSCOW, May 9 (Reuters) - Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, sent a message of congratulations on Friday to Pope Leo, whose predecessor Pope Francis had criticised Kirill's ...