COMMENTARY: American policy-makers should take this pathology into account when pondering whatever negotiations, or other ...

"Russian Orthodox thinkers, because of the czar's gruesome ... "Putin becomes, in the words of one monk I interviewed, an 'echo' of the last czar," Riccardi-Swartz notes. "Folks like this monk ...

Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested that they lacked family and “roots,” the latest antisemitic statement from the Russian leader since his 2022 ...

A number of Orthodox priests who are against Russia's invasion of Ukraine have sought refuge in Germany, where they face many challenges. After Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in ...

Military medic Natalya carried a jug of water blessed by priests at the Sviatogirsk monastery in eastern Ukraine as she celebrated Orthodox Epiphany in a Russian-affiliated church, despite the war.

Immigration helped fuel the growth of America’s Orthodox churches more than a century ago. Now, it’s conversions from other ...

(AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov) People plunge in icy water to celebrate the Orthodox Epiphany near the St. Serafimovsky Monastery on Russian Island in Russian far east port Vladivostok, Russia ...

Orthodox Christians in Russia marked the feast ... and South Ossetia, as well as Russian soldiers purportedly in Ukraine’s Kherson region immersing themselves in water. However, unusually ...

MOSCOW – Thousands of Russians celebrating the Orthodox Christian feast day of ... been canceled in areas as distant as the southern Russian region of Saratov and Karelia, almost 1000 miles ...