It felt like a celebration of a life well lived, people knew he had done what he was called to do,” said Father Leon Biernat of St. Gregory the Great Parish.

To be called Ararat, a tract of land on nearby Grand Island that was intended in 1825 to be the first autonomous Jewish ...

President Vladimir Putin of Russia hailed the pope as a “consistent defender of the high values of humanism and justice” and ...

Earlier, he said the pope encouraged the development of a dialogue between the Russian Orthodox and the Roman Catholic ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia on Sunday of creating a false appearance of honoring an Easter ...

It now has more than 1,500 registered members, and church leaders say more than 4,000 people attend services each week. DSK Mariam is part of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Churches — one of ...

Navalny -- Putin's main opponent -- was declared an "extremist" by Russian authorities, a ruling that remains in force despite his death in an Arctic penal colony on February 16, 2024.

Four journalists accused of working for the banned organisation of late opposition leader Alexei Navalny have been sentenced by a Moscow court to five and a half years in a penal colony, in the ...

Four journalists linked to the late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny were sentenced to spend five years and six months in a penal colony on Tuesday, after they were accused of working for ...

Still, the city’s charm endured, especially on a hill above the town, where the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, a grand Russian Orthodox church, loomed. Built in 1894 during the Russian Empire ...