Church property and art was confiscated, and the Soviets infiltrated the church to split it ideologically from the inside. By the time World War II broke out, the mainstream church had all but ...

Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, on Saturday dismissed his expert on art and restoration for obstructing the transfer of a historic 15th-century Trinity icon to the Church ...

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

A revered religious painting that has just been transferred on President Vladimir Putin's orders from a museum to the Russian Orthodox Church needs a year of restoration and remains state property ...

Cyril and Methodius were the Greek linguists whose translation of Christian texts into the Slavic language inspired Fr. John Veniaminov, later St. Innocent of Alaska, to establish Alaska’s first ...

The controversial handovers of two of Russia's most revered pieces of art to the Orthodox Church leave experts wondering what may be next. This is Trinity, a Russian religious icon that was ...

Vladimir Putin Putin uses Russian church to spread his saintly status in nation with no separation of religion and state Russian President Vladimir Putin was made to appear as though he was ...

A recently constructed Russian Orthodox church in Västerås, Sweden, has raised suspicions among security experts and local officials. Though some see the church as a place of worship, others ...

Russian shelling hits Ukrainian church in Kherson that held the remains of Catherine the Great advisor Prince Grigory Potemkin until last year.

Andrey Rublev (or Rublyov – nobody is sure how his name was pronounced) has been described as “the greatest Russian artist who ever lived”, whose work had “a clarity of composition and ...

Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, fired archpriest Leonid Kalinin, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s expert council on church art, architecture, and restoration for ...