Cultures across the globe have their version of utopia: the Garden of Eden, Elysium, Shambhala. In the heart of Eurasia, ...

The abbots and abbesses of 39 monasteries in Greece and Mount Athos have issued an open letter supporting the Ukrainian ...

18, 2025. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov) People plunge in icy water to celebrate the Orthodox Epiphany near the St. Serafimovsky Monastery on Russian Island in Russian far east port Vladivostok ...

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 ...

The publication of the Vatican declaration Fiducia supplicans in December 2023, allowing the blessing of same-sex couples in ...

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

Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral wasn't completed until the early 20th century. Tsar Nicholas II, the head of the tragic Romanov family, commissioned the ornate building not only to honor the ...

Father Grigorios, a Greek-Orthodox monk lived 38 years of his life in a monastery-fortress on the remote Ionian island of Strofades. Public Domain This is the story of Father Grigorios, a ...

Russian president Vladimir Putin has often cast himself as the defender of the Orthodox faith, and he even allowed the church to regain a level of prominence in Russia not seen since before the ...

Conceding Ukrainian land to Russia comes with a host of geopolitical downsides, but a lesser-known consequence affects churches: Moscow targets non-Orthodox Christians. Across Russian-occupied ...