Though there will be international outrage that the church suffered additional damage, it is now likely that Putin will spin ...

Syria’s Christians face an uncertain future, caught between shifting alliances both in the sphere of global politics and the ...

but was also reported to have suffered heavy losses during slow ground advances in eastern Ukraine. He said he also hoped that St Nicholas would help Orthodox Christians to find “unanimity and peace” ...

The pack of stray dogs -- thin and rain-soaked -- yelped in fear at the roar of incoming Russian artillery fire that echoed ...

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 ...

After Moscow hit Ukraine with a nuclear-capable missile — and threatened atomic war with the West — Ukraine's ex-president is ...

In several Eastern European and Middle Eastern countries, Christmas is officially celebrated on January 7. This stems from the fact that many Orthodox Christian churches adhere to the Julian ...

Raphael Thattil was made the Major Archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Church, the largest Eastern ... Orthodox Church with the Catholic Church. However, 44-year-old Mykola Bychok, an Ukrainian ...

The pack of stray dogs -- thin and rain-soaked -- yelped in fear at the roar of incoming Russian artillery fire that echoed off abandoned Soviet-era buildings and an Orthodox church in frontline ...

As Vicar of the universal Church, the Pope is shepherd of the rites of the West and the East. The eastern rites which ... to the liturgy used by the Orthodox churches. After the schism between ...