The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa transforms a Spanish nun, mystic, and writer, into one of the most famous emblems of the ...

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 ...

After witnessing a string of fireballs streak across the sky in North America in 1860, the landscape painter rendered the ...

When I began exploring the history of Christianity and the art it inspired, I had no idea it would lead me to one of the ...

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

Tchaikovsky was neither American, nor a founding father, but his “1812 Overture” has become the soundtrack to our ...

An exhibition spanning 10 days featuring oil paintings by Chinese and Russian artists, commencing on May 14 at the Beijing Russian Culture Center, captivated visitors with scenes ranging from a ...

THE Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) has issued a strongly worded statement condemning the Russian state’s policy of rehabilitating Soviet-era figures and its growing embrace of ...

The Silencing of Russian Art Vladimir Putin views his country’s cultural sphere like any other sector: a subordinate dominion, which should submit to the state’s needs and interests.

Russian politicians want to close house churches and ban anointing faithful in flats. This would hit the religious communities hard and following the Orthodox Church hierarchy, Catholic bishops are ...

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 ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Pope Francis at the Vatican and presented him an oil painting titled The Massacre in Bucha: The Story of Marichka, highlighting the war crimes ...