There are an estimated 2,000 churches in New York, with dozens designated as cathedrals. Churches and cathedrals are classic ...

In the Latin Church, believers determine how they will observe Lent (fasting is prescribed on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday). In contrast, the dietary observances of Orthodox Great Lent ...

The Islamic-nationalist shift of Turkish power Turkey’s announcement in 2020 of transforming the historic medieval Greek Orthodox church into a mosque sparked anger from Greek authorities that ...

After likely hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian and Russian dead, it will be hard for any side to refuse the concept of a truce. Moscow will be under pressure to show it is not the obstacle to US ...

offers a unique and picturesque miniature compound, comprising two homes crafted from an early-20th-century church and parsonage (a house provided for a clergy member). Located in Camp Meeker ...

by the Russian Orthodox Church's primate, Patriarch Kirill, who has lauded Russia's war aims in sermons and speeches in the church's name, denouncing the "forces of evil, conflict and division ...

As a result of Mr Grozev's activities, he was placed on the wanted list by the Russian Interior Ministry. Mr Grozev was followed to different countries, including Austria, Montenegro and Spain. The ...

The blaze destroyed the church interior save for the marble statue of Mary, carved in Italy in the 1850s. “In gratitude, the people of the church collected their jewelry and gold and they made this ...

THE senior Russian Orthodox bishop who allegedly the target of a murder plot by two ethnic Ukrainian laymen has asked to meet the men who currently await trial A FORMER Russian Orthodox priest, now ...

The Russian Orthodox Church in Lithuania deliberately hides its affiliation to the Moscow Patriarchate, an Orthodox cleric has claimed. Fr Gintaras Sungaila, a priest of the Exarchate of the ...