COMMENTARY: Ukrainian Catholic leaders warn that priests have been expelled, churches destroyed, and religious life driven ...

Jan 7 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin attended an early Wednesday Russian Orthodox Christmas service and hailed his troops' “holy mission” to defend Russia, pairing the ceremony with a holiday ...

Jan 7 - President Vladimir Putin attended an early Wednesday Russian Orthodox Christmas service and hailed his troops' “holy mission” to defend Russia, pairing the ceremony with a holiday address on ...

The Christmas season isn’t over, at least not for the handful of Orthodox Christian churches that follow the Julian Calendar and are celebrating Christmas on Wednesday with special liturgies, dinners ...

Orthodox churches that celebrate the Nativity according to the Julian calendar marked the great Christian holiday on Wednesday. An Orthodox priest offers sacred wine and bread to believers after a ...

Enhe was once home to thousands of ethnic Russians. Under Xi Jinping’s push for ethnic unity, little remains beyond nostalgia and props for tourists. Buildings with Russian-style decorative features ...

The Russian Orthodox Church launched a nationwide prayer service this weekend that urges women against having an abortion, coming amid government efforts to reverse the country’s population decline.

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In April 2023, 30 priests and pastors, dressed in heavy boots and military fatigues, gathered in the sanctuary of Kyiv’s Saint Sophia Cathedral for a special ceremony. As they bent their heads to ...

This is not something I knew when I washed up on the banks of the Ganges at the age of twenty-three, looking for my own alternative to the orthodoxies I’d been raised with. But it had a lot to do with ...