often called Father Superior of the Russian land. The Theotokos of Tikhvin is one of the most celebrated Orthodox Christian icons. It is said that St. Luke the Evangelist created it during the ...

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

The Christianity It is today the most widespread religion in the worldwith over 2 billion of faithful divided into three ...

Vladimir Putin met the head of the Russian Orthodox Church ... and asked Kirill to consecrate crosses and icons he prepared as gifts for commanders of his troops fighting in Ukraine.

Speaking of Mary as “Theotokos,” the “God ... feast is represented in the 15th-century icon “The Nativity,” prayed by Andrei Rublev. In the Orthodox tradition, sacred images of icons ...

The Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Alexy II presented the new ruler of Russia with religious relics, handing him an icon of St Alexander Nevsky and also the recreated icons of the Savior ...

The icon depicts scenes from the life of St Matrona of Moscow, a 20th Century Russian visionary and healer. In one, the Russian Orthodox saint can be seen blessing Stalin. The Patriarchate of ...

EKLUTNA, Alaska (AP) — The Russian Orthodox church was established in Alaska on Kodiak Island in 1794 and missionaries spread the faith, baptizing an estimated 18,000 Alaska Natives. EKLUTNA ...

The Russian Orthodox church on the outskirts of Alaska’s biggest city is packed with treasures for the Christian faithful: religious icons gifted by Romanov czars, panels of oil paintings and ...

blessing Russian soldiers with holy water and icons before battle. Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, has been a staunch supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

he resolved to bring the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad under the Moscow patriarchate. Putin personally supervised a years-long courtship of White Church priests, at one point sending a gift to the ...

The war in Ukraine has accelerated a restructuring of religious life across the country that aims to untangle itself from Russian influence ... of the Theotokos Orthodox Cathedral.