The beards of Orthodox priests are some of their most striking attributes, marking them as different from other Western ...

One of the few upsides, if it can be called that, of covering the war in Ukraine for the past three years has been witnessing ...

Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Church, has zealously backed Russia’s ‘special military operation’ and castigates a morally ...

American Kalob Byers, 28, who was recently arrested in Russia, has been released after several days in detention, according ...

As we seek to heal the breakdown in trust the Bankstown nurse scandal placed on our healthcare system, we could do worse than ...

"The visit to Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow - one of the largest Orthodox churches in the world and the most important spiritual and cultural symbol of Russia - reminded us of the strength and ...

Further reading: A historic prayer gathering of Protestants, Orthodox and Catholics in papal Rome One cannot overstate how much progress was made in the 20th century: the pope, for the majority of ...

The stunning news came in a terse statement from the Russian penitentiary service a year ago: Opposition leader Alexei Navalny had died in the Arctic Circle penal colony.

Although the West has long tolerated forced expulsions when convenient, its postwar framework at least nominally rejected ...

A senior Ukrainian Orthodox Church official recently warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin thinks the Kremlin is in a ‘holy war’ with the West.  Read More ...

With world-beating museums and spectacular nature, Almaty – Kazakhstan’s largest metropolis – remains surprisingly ...

Many in Georgia feel the government is taking the country back into the Kremlin’s orbit. As the protest movement nears its ...