Just about everything about the onion-domed Russian Orthodox church near the otherwise unassuming Swedish city of Vasteras ...

Swedish intelligence services believe that one of the country's Russian Orthodox churches could be a base for spying. Almost ...

By 2010, the Russian Orthodox Church had taken on a new role inside the Russian army with the introduction of military priests, or chaplains. And in 2020, Putin and his defense minister, Sergei Shoigu ...

Inside Ukraine, the Russian church has long held sway over one of the largest branches of the fractured Orthodox faith, known until recently as the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate ...

6 A soldier wearing the badge of the "Pyatnashka" international brigade, a fighting unit founded by ethnic Abkhaz, walks inside St. Michael's Church in Avdiyivka.

Ukrainian law enforcement officers inspect one of churches of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine November 22, 2022.

Updated at 2:00 p.m. ET on May 9, 2024. In late August of 2018, Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, flew from Moscow to Istanbul on an urgent mission. He brought with him ...

A refurbishing effort in Eklutna will breathe new life into Anchorage’s oldest standing building, a simple Russian Orthodox log church dating from the era of Russia’s colonization of Alaska.

The Russian Orthodox Church is led by Patriarch Kirill, an ally of Vladimir Putin. But the UOC says it is firmly behind Ukraine’s fight to defend itself. In May it scrubbed all mention of Moscow ...

The Russian Orthodox church was established in Alaska on Kodiak Island in 1794 and missionaries spread the faith, baptizing an estimated 18,000 Alaska Natives. Today, up to 50,000 Alaskans ...

The Russian Orthodox church was established in Alaska on Kodiak Island in 1794 and missionaries spread the faith, baptizing an estimated 18,000 Alaska Natives. Today, up to 50,000 Alaskans ...