The Russian Orthodox Church has defrocked a priest for conducting the country's first reported gay wedding. Church authorities in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, east of Moscow, said the ceremony was a ...

MOSCOW — The Russian Orthodox Church has unfrocked ... took part in a hastily arranged ceremony this week. After a full Orthodox wedding ceremony, Father Vladimir, a local priest, pronounced ...

A life-size cutout of the groom greeted guests at the wedding reception, at a restaurant ... They plan a Russian Orthodox wedding sometime next year. Dmitriev, who wore a cream-colored wedding ...