Sergei Torop, 64, lost his job as a traffic cop before founding the Church of the Last Testament in 1991 and claiming to be ...

The traffic cop turned cult leader who claimed to be the son of god — and will now spend 12 years in jail - Alex Croft looks at how Sergei Torop, also known as Vissarion, ended up in jail after he was ...

"Jesus of Siberia" Sergei Torop Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison | Firstpost America | N18G A Russian cult leader who claimed ...

They began moving to Western Siberia in 1890, and by 1915 over 80,000 ethnic Germans lived in Siberia. The number of baptized Mennonite adults throughout Russia peaked at 120,000, near the onset ...

The Belostok church was consecrated in 1908. A few years later, in 1913, in the neighboring village of Maličevka, other Poles did the same by building a small Latin Catholic church.

The Rev. Mikhail “Misha” Shakurov is not the first minister to travel a great distance to reach his new church in Odessa, but his 7,300-mile trip from Almaty, Kazakhstan, might well have set a ...

An Orthodox priest baptizes a baby at a church inside the Doctor Voino-Yasenetsky Saint Luka train, at a railway station in Divnogorsk, outside Russia's Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, on May 26, 2014.

Berdsk (Agenzia Fides) - The new Catholic Church in the heart of Siberia is named after Saint Joseph. Members of the small Catholic community in Berdsk, a town of 95,000 people 40 kilometers from ...

Culture, conflict, and incredible craftsmanship have shaped this architectural gem that has survived the ravages of time. Tyumen. Trinity Monastery. Church of Sts. Peter and Paul (left), Trinity ...

In the 1920s a great city in Siberia that was to be called "Evangelsk" was envisioned by Ivan Prokhanov. Prokhanov was an Evangelical Christan leader who founded the All-Russian Union of ...

Dedicated to Saint Anthony of Padua, in 2018 a fire had reduced it to ashes. Founded in 1898 by Polish deportees. First destroyed in 1938 by Bolshevik activists. Reconsecrated in 199 ...