After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine broke from the Russian Orthodox Church. The Greek Orthodox Church sided with Ukraine, irking Moscow. In part retaliation against the ...

In 1859 the Russian orthodox community in Geneva was granted permission to build this church, with financial assistance from Anna Feodorovna Constancia, sister-in-law of Tsar Alexander 1st.

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill is sending letters ... Patriarch Kirill during their gynecologist appointments at the Church Hospital of St. Alexis in Moscow,” Moskvitina said in a ...

IN A rare show of dissent, the Russian Orthodox Church has criticised new Soviet-style legislation in the State Duma which will ban religious services and prayer meetings in blocks of flats. “This ...

Russia realizes that African support for Russia is based on the work of Russian Orthodox Church activities since the late 1880s. Currently Africa has over 730 million Christians, the largest number of ...

THE discord between the Patriarch of Alexandria, Theodoros II, and the Russian Orthodox Church in Africa is intensifying, with no apparent end in sight. Patriarch Theodoros continues to denounce ...

(Russian Orthodox Diocese photo) On Saturday, Matushka Olga took one step closer to sainthood when her grave was unburied and her remains transferred to a church in Kwethluk. In the Russian ...

Construction of a Russian Orthodox church will begin in Yangon in January next year, giving brick-and-mortar shape to growing ties between Myanmar’s military junta and its key arms supplier Moscow.

On June 11, the Church commemorates Saint Mitrophan Chi-Sung and those martyred with him. These include Tatiana, Isaiah and John, his sons; Maria, his bride; Saint Ia (or Iya), his teacher; and 222 ...

Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral wasn't completed until ... religious needs of the city's growing Russian population. The church's onion domes, bright colors and detailed ornamentation are ...

On December 11, 2024, Sounds of Cyprus will perform in Brooklyn, New York in partnership with Brooklyn Maqam. Sounds of Cyprus is a Cypriot orchestra co-founded by Peter Douskalis and Elena Chris in ...