By Daniel Brancato Gibraltar is set to welcome a rare and historic visitor: the Kursk Root Icon of the Theotokos (‘Mother of ...

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 ...

Proposals for a national cathedral in the country of about 19 million people had been put forward for more than a century, ...

The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) has become a central pillar of the Kremlin’s political and informational warfare strategy, which shapes narratives by fusing ...

EKLUTNA, Alaska — 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 ...

A Russian Orthodox priest in Kazakhstan, defrocked last summer after speaking out against the invasion of Ukraine, has launched a longshot bid to establish an autocephalous Orthodox church of ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill (L) on Red Square in Moscow, Russia, on Nov. 4, 2023. Estonia's parliament backed a resolution on May 6 to declare the ...

A Russian faith-based messaging app nicknamed “Orthodox WhatsApp” has appeared on Google Play, though officials from the Russian Orthodox Church said they had no involvement in the project and ...

A second vote on the bill is necessary before being presented to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for final approval as a law. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) is part of the greater Eastern Orthodox ...

Patriarch Alexy II, who died Friday at age 79 of a long-standing heart ailment, le d the great revival of the Russian Orthodox Church, transforming it from a subservient and entirely dependent tool of ...

Christians in Ukraine are "like the first-century Christians, hunted by an empire" and "horribly persecuted," the executive ...