Russian Orthodox priest Father Alexander (L) speaks with a biker at a church in Kemerovo on July 31, 2010. Father Alexander, himself an avid biker, makes several religious biker pilgrimages a year ...

A Russian Orthodox parish that has been worshipping in Spring for 12 years will celebrate the completion of its new church building next Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 23-24. St. Jonah Orthodox Church ...

According to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, 101.1 million people identified as Orthodox Christians in Russia, making up 71 percent of the population.. As the church has become ...

The Russian Orthodox Church had always supported panslavism—a movement based on the idea that all speakers of Slavic languages should live in one country—i.e. Russia.

The closest Russian Orthodox church that features services in Russian Church Slavonic is in Roslindale, and that parish is bursting at the seams, says France. In Framingham, services are held in a ...

Medieval Russian authors also re-identified Israel (especially the references in the Old Testament) to the Orthodox Christian commonwealth based in Moscow, the Third Rome, and from that, the ...

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 ...

ANTALYA, Turkey — Standing in an old Orthodox church in Antalya with a Bible in one hand and a candle in the other, the Rev. Ioann Koval led one of ...

MOSCOW -- A group of Christian enthusiasts has released a calendar showing an unexpected face of the Russian Orthodox Church: cat-loving priests. The Priest and Cat calendar released earlier this ...

The Russian Orthodox Church has come under heavy criticism on the Internet this week over a 2014 wall calendar published by a revered monastery's printing house that features portraits of Soviet ...

The 15th annual Troika Festival will take place May 23-25 at the Russian Orthodox Church of the Nativity Community Center. The festival will feature live music, Barynya dancing, and a variety of ...