A priest who oversaw a memorial for late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been suspended for three years by the head of the country's Orthodox Church. Dmitry Safronov held a memorial ...

The Russian Orthodox Church has issued a demand for an apology from Alla Pugacheva, the country's most celebrated pop singer, who recently returned to Russia, following her public criticism about ...

MOSCOWMOSCOW — Worshippers including President Vladimir Putin packed Moscow’s landmark Christ the Savior Cathedral for a nighttime Easter service led by Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox ...

A video of a bearded man wearing headphones and repeatedly firing a pistol at a shooting range recently triggered a frenzy on ...

HOWELL - The head of the Russian Orthodox Church outside of Russia journeyed to a small residential neighborhood in Howell Tuesday, enrobed in ornate vestments to bless the renovated St. George's ...

Russian courts have banned three more Baptist churches affiliated with the Council of Churches Baptists in the southern ...

The priest prayed for the Lukoil Volgogradneftepererabotka plant.

EKLUTNA, Alaska — The Russian Orthodox church on the outskirts of Alaska’s biggest city is packed with treasures for the Christian faithful: religious icons gifted by Romanov czars, panels of oil ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Following the Angelus, his weekly prayer service at the Vatican, on Sunday (Aug. 25), Pope Francis criticized Ukraine’s decision to ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which has ...

Although the cross-border offensive carries risks, it also paid dividends on Saturday with the first prisoner swap with Russia in several months. By Andrew E. Kramer The measure, which awaits ...

Ukrainian lawmakers on August 20 approved a bill banning religious organizations linked to the Russian Orthodox Church, which Kyiv has criticized for being supportive of Moscow's full-scale invasion.

WEST JORDAN, Utah (KUTV) — A West Jordan church has once again become the target of illegal dumping, forcing church members to pay for cleanup for the second time this year. On Tuesday, members of ...