But in the Soviet Era, beginning in 1952, Vladivostok was a closed military city, and the only people allowed in and out were ...

President Vladimir Putin attended an early Wednesday Russian Orthodox Christmas service and hailed his troops' “holy mission” ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Russia’s FSB security service said on Friday it had arrested two church figures suspected of plotting to kill a priest close to President Vladimir Putin on the orders of a Ukrainian spy agency. There ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has given the Russian Orthodox Church possession of the country's most valuable religious icon. Putin gifted the icon – Andrei Rublev's "Trinity" – to the care of the ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) – The leaders of Russia’s Orthodox church and Poland’s Catholic church signed a document Friday that urges their nations to forgive each other for past wrongs. The signing in ...

Russia is the “spiritual adversary of the Western civilisation”, the Patriarch of Moscow said as he marked Orthodox Christmas ...

Archpriest Heorhii Horbenko, the rector of the Church of the Intercession in the village of Orlove in Kherson Oblast, has ...