THE senior Russian Orthodox bishop who allegedly the target of a murder plot by two ethnic Ukrainian laymen has asked to meet the men who currently await trial A FORMER Russian Orthodox priest, now ...

by the Russian Orthodox Church's primate, Patriarch Kirill, who has lauded Russia's war aims in sermons and speeches in the church's name, denouncing the "forces of evil, conflict and division ...

Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker ... And they’ve all found a new home in the Russian Orthodox Church. Sarah Riccardi-Swartz is an assistant professor of religion and ...

And, of course, the Russian Orthodox Church is always with its people ... The three-story complex features sports halls, a conference room and a chapel dedicated to the ascetic Saint Varlaam ...

A majority of Russian Orthodox churches worldwide use the Julian calendar, which celebrates Christmas on Jan. 7, instead of using the Gregorian calendar proposed by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582.

A historic Russian Orthodox church is keeping the faith in the family. After over 54 years as rector, the Very Rev. Mitred ...

MOSCOW, October 20. /TASS/. The Russian Orthodox Church has recognized Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople as a schismatic based on the Orthodox Church canons, Metropolitan Hilarion ...

The Russian Orthodox Church strongly backs the war in Ukraine and has punished dozens of priests who have defied its official line, for example by reading out prayers for peace instead of victory.

Russian president Vladimir Putin has often cast himself as the defender of the Orthodox faith ... a traditional feature of Gothic churches]. No plasterwork was harmed, only the stained-glass ...

Originally conceived in the mid-1800s to honor Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich (who died in Nice), the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral ... population. The church's onion domes, bright ...