A recently constructed Russian Orthodox church in Västerås, Sweden, has raised suspicions among security experts and local ...

Pierre Gilliard, Swiss tutor to the Tsar’s children. Ten years ago, in 2005, debate raged in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) about our relations with the Church inside Russia. Was ...

This is the recently built Russian Orthodox Church on the outskirts of the Swedish town of Västerås — to its backers, an innocent place of worship; but to an increasingly vocal group of critics, a ...

Russian soldiers are being given “purity seals” blessed by Orthodox priests and inspired by the futuristic combat game ...

which continues to play an unhealthy role inside the Orthodox community. For about one hundred years, after Bolsheviks headed by Josef Stalin destroyed the previous Russian Orthodox church ...

Originally conceived in the mid-1800s to honor Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich (who died in Nice), the St. Nicholas Russian ... inside. You will want to bring a scarf with you just in case. The ...

Known as the "Orthodox Oligarch" due to his connections with the Russian church, the investment banker ... "Anything trapped ...

On Oct. 11, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople — the spiritual leader of 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide — started a process to grant independence to a Ukrainian ...

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has given his holy blessing to the death penalty, should Russian officials wish to lift the country’s moratorium. Kirill told a veterans’ group on Monday that ...

When they got inside, however, they found an empty ... According to the calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church, preceding Assumption is a day of forefeast and it is followed by nine days of ...

“But in war, all means are good, and the Russian Orthodox Church no longer shies away from using any mechanisms, including purely occult ones.” ...