In the 17th century, the Russian Orthodox Church underwent a controversial ... The people who adhered to the original rites ...

Inscriptions on the back of this particular cross allowed experts to connect it to Russia's community of Old Believers or Old ...

The typical conversation on the patriarchal Russian family by and large begins with the ... The order and cleanliness of Orthodox Old Believers’ homes catch your eye. The families are very thrifty and ...

Leonid Sevastyanov, the head of the World Union of Old Believers ... from the Russian government. Zuppi said that he would be received by the government and the Russian Orthodox Church.

If a person, who is a subject of investigation, recognizes his or her guilt and publicly voices regret over an act of sacrilege, every believer ... chief of the Russian Orthodox Synod’s ...