Russia and Turkey’s international religious influence relies on a specific national narrative – one that is challenged by the ...

This liturgy is similar if not identical to the liturgy used by the Orthodox ... Romanian, Russian, Ruthenian, Slovak, and Ukrainian. ALEXANDRIAN. The liturgy used by the church in Alexandria ...

When Olena Jacobs dances, every twirl, twist and step tells a story. The red blooms embroidered on her traditional garb are reminiscent of the poppies that blanket the Ukrainian countryside. The ...

The story of the Rev. Hilarion Alfeyev captures how a once robust effort to bring Russian Orthodox Christianity and the ...

Pope Francis and Kirill, patriarch of Moscow and all Russia, signed a Joint Declaration in Havana in 2016, which aimed to ...

For the occasion of the Easter Season, we spoke about some of the demographic and historical backgrounds of the various ...

ON a recent afternoon in Bila Tserkva, a quiet city in central Ukraine, a 59-year-old history teacher settled into a ...

A Ukrainian drone has targeted a Russian Orthodox church in Belgorod Region, setting fire to the building, the local governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, has reported. Since the escalation of the conflict ...

That is why most popes in history have chosen the name John. After stating his new name, the new pope is taken to the so-called "Room of Tears", an antechamber in the Sistine Chapel, where he first ...

The Kremlin has designated new representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), tasked with promoting the ideas of the "Russian world" in Ukraine and undermining the unity of Ukrainian society.