ISTANBUL (RNS) — The Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul appears intent on capitalizing on the Russian attack, keeping up a ...

What is Orthodox Christmas? And why do millions of people celebrate it on January 7 - The ancient church in the Roman Empire set its religious feasts based on the Julian calendar ...

Millions of people worldwide celebrated Orthodox Christmas nearly two weeks after much of the world marked the holiday. Some Eastern Orthodox churches, including Russian traditions, follow the ...

Russia’s foreign intelligence service accused the Ecumenical Patriarchate of attempting to undermine the Russian Orthodox ...

When we look at the nation of Russia today, it’s almost impossible to imagine how its citizens – and indeed, the world – must have experienced it just a little over a century ago: before the war in ...

MOSCOW, January 7. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin has extended his congratulations to all Russian people on Orthodox Christmas holiday, pointing out to the Russian Orthodox Church’s ...

WINFIELD — Members of the Russian Orthodox Christian Church welcomed the bishop of Syracuse to the new temple in Winfield on Wednesday morning. Bishop Luke of Syracuse, abbot of Holy Trinity Monastery ...