Father Spyridon has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in a monastery carved into a cliffside high above the Aegean Sea ...

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Alexei Navalny is dead. And yet he lives. He lives to trouble Vladimir Putin, the authoritarian strongman of Russia who may ...

A Jehovah's Witness in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk was sentenced to six years in prison on Thursday for organising the activities of an extremist group, the local interior ministry said. Maxim ...

Church leaders push for a common Easter date, as they seek to bridge centuries-old divisions between Eastern and Western ...

The Russian Orthodox Church has a long history of close links to the Kremlin. It also has a key role in justifying the ...

Deep in Siberia's wilderness, a family vanished for decades—until outsiders stumbled upon their hidden world. Their story ...

In the Russian city of Yekaterinburg, near an Orthodox church, a 16-meter replica of a gas pipeline has been installed—symbolizing the route Russian soldiers allegedly used to infiltrate the city of ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Ukraine struck a major Russian strategic bomber airfield on Thursday with drones, triggering a huge blast and fire about 700 km (435 miles) from the front lines of the war ...

Barnes and Marc Santora Julian E. Barnes reported from Washington, and Marc Santora from Kyiv, Ukraine An analysis made this week of Russian attitudes toward a possible cease-fire with Ukraine ...

[Updated at 9:59]: In the early hours of March 19, Russian forces used drones to strike the railway ... Meanwhile, in the Bucha district of the Kyiv region, a drone attack injured a 60-year-old man.

This ambivalence culminated in an outright ban in 1722 when the Russian Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod formally prohibited depicting Saint Christopher with a dog’s head. Nonetheless, tradition proved ...