Roman Catholic clergymen carry palm fronds during the Palm Sunday procession at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, ...

Christians have celebrated Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week. This photo gallery was curated by AP photo editor Patrick ...

The traditional sung service begun late Saturday, with Kirill delivering well-wishes to Orthodox believers which were broadcast on Russian TV. A procession of white-robed clergy then circled the ...

Worshippers including President Vladimir Putin packed Moscow’s landmark Christ the Savior Cathedral for a night-time Easter service led by Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church ...

as follows from a statement the external relations department of the Russian Orthodox Church published on Tuesday after the mass religious peace procession in Ukraine. "Canonical Orthodoxy still ...

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 ...

The country has been considered Orthodox since 988, when the bishops of Constantinople baptized this land, which was then ruled by the Kievan Rus. The Russian Orthodox Church originates from Kyiv.

A Russian Orthodox priest has been arrested over a 2014 photograph in which he is shown with a Ukrainian flag, according to the cleric. Nikolai Savchenko posted on social media that police ...

MOSCOW, October 20. /TASS/. The Russian Orthodox Church has recognized Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople as a schismatic based on the Orthodox Church canons, Metropolitan Hilarion ...

A new book, Apodictic Treatise on The Procession of The Holy Spirit, by the incomprable St. Gregory Palamas is now available for pre-order from Uncut Mountain Press: "This towering figure of Orthodox ...