People plunge in icy water to celebrate the Orthodox Epiphany near the St. Serafimovsky Monastery on Russian Island in ...

Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested that they lacked family and “roots,” the latest antisemitic statement from the Russian leader since his 2022 ...

A man steps down to plunge as a cross is reflected in icy water before celebrating the Orthodox Epiphany in the Stroginskaya ...

Across Russian-occupied Ukraine, Kremlin troops have shuttered places of worship since the first invasion began in 2014.

Just as ancient Roman Empire had its protective geniuses of war, so in today’s dominant new patriarchal martyrology, the ...

Military medic Natalya carried a jug of water blessed by priests at the Sviatogirsk monastery in eastern Ukraine as she celebrated Orthodox Epiphany in a Russian-affiliated church, despite the war.

People plunge in icy water to celebrate the Orthodox Epiphany near the St. Serafimovsky Monastery on Russian Island in ...

Military medic Natalya carried a jug of water blessed by priests at the Sviatogirsk monastery in east Ukraine as she ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Thousands of Russians celebrating the Orthodox Christian feast day of ... been canceled in areas as distant as the southern Russian region of Saratov and Karelia, almost 1000 ...

Orthodox Christians in Russia marked the feast ... and South Ossetia, as well as Russian soldiers purportedly in Ukraine’s Kherson region immersing themselves in water. However, unusually ...