A number of Orthodox priests who are against Russia's invasion of Ukraine have sought refuge in Germany, where they face many challenges. After Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine 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 ...

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 ...

Russian, Byelorussian as well as in the Lemk dialest and in Swedish. Choirs from Poland and abroad can participate in the FESTIVAL OF ORTHODOX MUSIC. The choirs can be mixed, all male and all female ...

In April 2018, he hosted Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill in Albania and called for “an immediate end to Russia’s fratricidal war against Ukraine,” La Croix International reported.

For this sequence of psalm and prayers, the composer takes as his starting point the time-honoured Orthodox chants but ... sonorities of Russian choral singing, especially its distinctive low bass ...

Most Orthodox Churches adopted what is known as the “new” calendar, but some, including the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), retained the old Julian calendar, resulting in a 13-day difference.

In Greece, Orthodox Easter is celebrated with an entire week of festivities – aptly titled ... The lamb is usually roasted on a spit outside, and the entire day is celebrated with food, wine, music, ...

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 ... above the chants and rattling ...