The beards of Orthodox priests are some of their most striking attributes, marking them as different from other Western ...

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Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Church, has zealously backed Russia’s ‘special military operation’ and castigates a morally ...

A new film, "The 21," recounts the beheadings 10 years ago of 21 Coptic Christians by ISIS radicals. But the film also ...

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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 ...