Sally Swetzoff leans over a sewing machine in the dining room of the Bishop’s House, just across from Unalaska’s Front Beach. She’s hemming the curtains for the bedroom windows, and she’s on a tight ...

EKLUTNA, Alaska — The Russian Orthodox church on the outskirts of Alaska’s biggest city is packed with treasures for the Christian faithful: religious icons gifted by Romanov czars, panels of oil ...

When we look at the nation of Russia today, it’s almost impossible to imagine how its citizens – and indeed, the world – must have experienced it just a little over a century ago: before the war in ...

On October 13, all churches of the Russian Orthodox Church will host a special festive divine service — an all-night vigil in ...

A battle has erupted in Moldova over its links to the Russian Orthodox Church, seen by many as a tool of Moscow’s influence abroad. By Andrew Higgins Some residents of Bari, Italy, hope Ukraine’s ...

(RNS) — After three Russian Orthodox Church priests were expelled from Bulgaria on charges of espionage last month, their former church is at the center of a diplomatic rift between the Russian and ...

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv-Halych, head of the worldwide Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, delivers the homily during a Mass of thanksgiving for Aid to the Church in Need at St.

LVIV, Ukraine (RNS) — On a recent Sunday, Ukrainian Orthodox Abbott Job Olshansky faced 50 stoic parishioners and presented his case for why the community should switch to the Gregorian liturgical ...