The increasingly powerful Russian Orthodox Church has built hundreds of new churches over the past decade. But some people in ...

A suicide bombing struck Mar Elias Church in Damascus, Syria, on June 22, 2025. The attack killed 20 people and injured more ...

The Kazanskaya Tserkov in Irkutsk is one of the most beautiful and historically significant churches in Siberia. Despite its size, Siberia houses a population of only about 40 million today, ...

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 ...

There was no church in Aidara, a tiny, remote village in Western Siberia, so families and their neighbors worshipped together in a dedicated prayer room in someone’s home.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Radio Svoboda / Siberia.Realities The Institute for the Study of War think tank reported earlier this month that Wagner’s private force has lost possibly close to half of its 50,000 fighters .