The monk recalls the words of the Russian Saint Seraphim of Sarov ... ‘a wake-up call for the soul,’ says Pope Francis In the Orthodox calendar, fasting days are more frequent than ordinary ...

The Orthodox distinctiveness lies particularly in the preparation period, which includes a fast starting ... known as the “new” calendar, but some, including the Russian Orthodox Church ...

Off the road system, any big event requires a unique set of logistics. For the upcoming glorification of St. Olga in the ...

The exclusion of the Orthodox crosses is likely to displease the Russian leader. The incident comes as relations between Putin and the Chechen leader are reported to have deteriorated in recent ...

THE Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has charged 14 senior figures in the Russian Orthodox Church with aiding the illegal transfer and seizure of churches in the temporarily occupied territories in ...

MOSCOW, May 9 (Reuters) - Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, sent a message of congratulations on Friday to Pope Leo, whose predecessor Pope Francis had criticised Kirill's ...

The Troika Festival has kicked off in the historic East Bayfront neighborhood, celebrating Russian culture at the Russian Old Rite Orthodox Church of the Nativity. Running for three days, the ...

FILE PHOTO: Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and all Russia looks on in the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius monastery in the town of Sergiyev Posad 30,899 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can ...

Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill approved the creation of the Yekaterinburg program during a synod meeting Thursday at Moscow’s Danilov Monastery. Since Russia launched its full-scale ...

Originally conceived in the mid-1800s to honor Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich (who died in Nice), the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral wasn't completed until the early 20th century.

(DIU) According to a press release issued by the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) on 3 May, two Russian Sukhoi Su-30 Flanker F multirole combat aircraft were shot down on 2 May by missiles ...