The first female Orthodox saint in North America was an Indigenous woman who spent her entire life with her Yup'ik family and ...

Russian military bloggers have criticized a Chechen award ceremony for Adam Kadyrov, son of regional leader Ramzan Kadyrov, after the Russian national emblem was displayed without its Orthodox ...

How icons are made. Iconographer Elias Katsaros doesn't actually paint the icons directly onto the wall. It's more like wallpaper, the Rev. Peter Pier of St. John Chrysostom Antiochian Orthodox ...

Russia's invasion, which began in February 2022, has also been a source of religious controversy within the Eastern Orthodox Church and has driven a split among believers in both Russia and Ukraine.

The fire began in the early hours of Jan. 2, 1966, and spread through the business district of Sitka, Alaska -- toward the historic St. Michael's Russian Orthodox Cathedral.

The icon depicts scenes from the life of St Matrona of Moscow, a 20th Century Russian visionary and healer. In one, the Russian Orthodox saint can be seen blessing Stalin.

Alla Pugacheva's return to Russia has reignited controversy surrounding her critical comments against the ongoing war in Ukraine, as well as a demand for an apology from the Russian Orthodox Church.

EKLUTNA, Alaska (AP) — 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.

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.

Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov), who has been appointed head of the Crimean Metropolis of the Russian Orthodox Church, has compared occupied Crimea with Kolyma. During the mass repressions of ...

On July 23, one of Ukraine’s largest churches, the Orthodox cathedral in Odessa, was seriously damaged by a Russian missile strike. The strike highlighted one of the lingering enigmas of Russian ...

Russia's most famous icon -- the Trinity by Andrei Rublev -- was officially transferred to the use of Russia's Orthodox Church for a period of 49 years, despite protests from Russia's museum ...