Last Christmas, I borrowed a thought from the English spiritual writer Caryll Houselander and suggested in this space that the wood of the manger anticipates the wood of the Cross: that Christmas ...

A number of Orthodox priests who are against Russia's invasion of Ukraine have sought refuge in Germany, where they face many challenges. After Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in ...

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, this week defended a new Ukrainian law that aims to limit the influence of the Russian Orthodox Church in the ...

"Arise, O God, to help Your people and grant us victory through Your power." Dozens of Russian Orthodox priests have been punished for challenging the Church's line on the war - for example ...

EKLUTNA, Alaska — The Russian Orthodox church on the outskirts ... Native spirit houses sit by aging gravesites alongside Orthodox crosses poking from the cemetery grounds.

EKLUTNA, Alaska (AP) — The Russian Orthodox church was established ... Native spirit houses sit by aging gravesites alongside Orthodox crosses poking from the cemetery grounds.

The Russian Orthodox church on the outskirts ... Alaska Native spirit houses sit by aging gravesites alongside Orthodox crosses poking from the cemetery grounds. The narrow church with white ...

A Russian flag and what appears to be an Orthodox cross are seen in a magnified image taken from Cape Nosappu in the city of Nemuro, Hokkaido, of the Kaigara Island lighthouse in the Russian-held ...

ANTALYA, Turkey — Standing in an old Orthodox church in Antalya with a Bible in one hand and a candle in the other, the Rev. Ioann Koval led one of ...

Standing in an old Orthodox church in Antalya with a Bible in one hand and a candle in the other, the Rev. Ioann Koval led one of his first services in Turkey after the Russian Orthodox Church ...

Of more than 40,000 clergymen in the Russian Orthodox Church, only 300 priests signed a public letter calling for peace in Ukraine. But each of the public voices against the war is crucial ...

Russian Orthodox Priests are facing persecution by their church for calling for peace in Ukraine while Moscow’s war rages on. At least 30 Orthodox priests have faced pressure by religious or ...