In a Moscow suburb, locals have been battling against city officials and the Russian Orthodox Church to stop construction of a new church in a city park. This construction project is part of a plan to ...

Russian revolutionaries ran their bayonets through it in 1917 when they seized the Winter Palace in Petrograd ... And it is the Orthodox Church, increasingly influential in Russia, which is ...

St. Mary’s Visitation Church: 625 Dundaff St., Dickson City, holds a weekly Monday night bingo ... St. John’s Russian Orthodox Cathedral: “Babas” of St. John’s Russian Orthodox Cathedral ...

During an Easter service at Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral held on Saturday night, Russian Orthodox Church head Patriarch Kirill referred to the holiday as a “victory day.” “Easter is a victory ...

Ukraine may need to import up to 6.3 billion cubic metres (bcm) of gas for the 2025/26 winter ... of Russia’s Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, a faithful backer of the Russian leader and ...

Orthodox Christians ... for people to attend church," he told DW. The same applies to Easter Monday. "Our celebration must otherwise take place during a late-night service." Last year, the Good ...

This year, Orthodox Easter will be observed on the same day as the Western one: Sunday, 20 April. The shared date is relatively rare as the churches use different calendars. Orthodox Easter is ...

The Orthodox and Catholic Churches have a united celebration in 2025, for the first time in eight years. Father John Basarab, pastor of Epiphany of Our Lord Byzantine Catholic Church, celebrates ...

That night, Christ appeared to him in a dream ... empire in 380 A.D. Constantine is especially significant to the Orthodox Church, which canonized him for his efforts, unlike the Roman Catholic ...

Despite GOP concerns over government interference, local evangelicals agree that the historic church must fully separate from its Moscow parent. During Tuesday night’s presidential debate ...

There was no church in Aidara ... a long beard traditional for Russian Orthodox Old Believers, relaxes for a moment following a five-hour prayer service the night before. Photograph by Emile ...