Communist takeovers of certain countries in Eastern Europe strained relations between the mother churches and their American branches. Questions of allegiance and politics divided parishioners. In one ...

Despite air temperatures plunging to as low as minus 41C in some areas of Russia and eastern Europe, hundreds of ... The Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the holiday according to the Julian ...

In Eastern Europe, the Russian Orthodox Church and the Serbian Orthodox Church largely remained silent as Jewish communities were exterminated. The Vatican knew about the Holocaust but did not ...

Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, conducts a service on Orthodox Christmas at the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow, Russia January 6, 2018. (photo credit ...

In a Moscow suburb, locals have been battling against city officials and the Russian Orthodox Church to stop construction of a new church in a city park. This construction project is part of a plan to ...

A branch of Ukraine’s Orthodox ... Church. In recent years a large part of the Orthodox community in Ukraine has moved away from Moscow, a movement accelerated by the conflict Russia stoked in ...

Orthodox Christians in Europe and the wider world packed churches ... Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem led Midnight Mass at the Church of the Nativity. In Moscow, the Russian Orthodox ...

Orthodox Christmas is celebrated by approximately 260 million people worldwide, both in majority-Orthodox countries in Eastern Europe ... split from the Catholic church and adhere to a calendar ...

Yet in a distinction that dates back centuries, Orthodox ... leader of Eastern Orthodox believers worldwide – endorsed the establishment of an independent Orthodox Church of Ukraine and revoked ...