But outside the hand-hewn log sanctuary, dozens of miniature Alaska Native spirit houses sit by aging gravesites alongside Orthodox crosses poking from the cemetery grounds. The narrow church with ...

St. Nicholas' dive coordinator, Michael Kouskoutis, has acknowledged that many other Orthodox churches allow girls to participate in the cross dive. But the Tarpon Springs church sees the boys as ...

a road sign translating the name into Russian and a giant Orthodox cross swiftly dispel doubts. Slava Rusa is one of a handful of settlements in Romania's far eastern Tulcea County populated by ...

But outside the hand-hewn log sanctuary, dozens of miniature Alaska Native spirit houses sit by aging gravesites alongside Orthodox crosses poking from the cemetery grounds. The narrow church with ...