Russian Christmas is actually celebrated on January 7 and not on December 25. This is because the Russian Orthodox Church ...

While most Christian denominations celebrate Christmas on December 25, Russian Orthodox Christians observe the holiday two ...

Despite the difference in calendars that means Russians celebrate Christmas on 7 January, since Soviet times on New Year's Eve the population marks the arrival of Ded Moroz, or ...

Enhe was once home to thousands of ethnic Russians. Under Xi Jinping’s push for ethnic unity, little remains beyond nostalgia ...

A Russian Orthodox priest in Kazakhstan, defrocked last summer after speaking out against the invasion of Ukraine, has launched a longshot bid to establish an autocephalous Orthodox church of ...

“In the whole history of the Orthodox Church in America, this has never been seen,” a priest said about the surge of young men drawn to the demanding practice of Christianity. By Ruth Graham The ...

Under Orthodox Church canon law, a patriarch cannot be married and must be celibate. But according to a new Proekt ...

Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy: Religion, Politics, and Strategy (Stanford University Press, 2019) by Dmitry Adamsky, a professor at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya university in Israel, is a ...

A ​trio of House Republicans welcomed an Orthodox Christian delegation that accused Ukraine of religious persecution to Capitol Hill this week. Reps. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) Eli Crane (R-Ariz.) and ...

As President Donald Trump's administration works toward a diplomatic end to the war in Ukraine, the leaders of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) are warning that Vladimir Putin's Russia believes it ...

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Vladimir Gundyaev, has been accompanied for more than 50 years by a female companion ...

Roman Kolesnikov, a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church, who began serving in the Estonian Orthodox Christian Church in the ...