Following the Julian calendar, some Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas 13 days later than those who use the Gregorian ...

TASS has prepared this factbox with background information on the history of Russia’s traditional New Year’s celebration ...

For those observing Orthodox Christmas, it's a time of self-reflection, prayer and healing. Following the Julian calendar, ...

The tradition of putting up an evergreen tree, or "yolka," to celebrate New Year's dates to the beginning of the former ...

As the clocks strike midnight, we Russian-speaking Israelis raise glasses of champagne and bite on a cracker smeared with ...

Pope Francis called for "arms to be silenced" around the world in his Christmas address on Wednesday, appealing for peace in ...

There are four main misconceptions about the role of the Russian Orthodox Church in the war and pro-war propaganda. The first misconception is that the Russian Orthodox Church is against Ukraine.

(JTA) — 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 ...

Originally conceived in the mid-1800s to honor Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich (who died in Nice), the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral ... population. The church's onion domes, bright ...

THEY weren’t the only ones going to church. Snow had not begun yet, but the air had the smell of it, the chill intoxicating null smell of the clouds above, dense with soft crystals nearly ready to ...

The parish priest of a church in Odesa Oblast affiliated with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate justified Russian aggression against Ukraine and incited religious hatred, an ...

A Moscow court sentenced 27-year-old Adam Shcherbakov to life imprisonment for murdering 90-year-old Roman Legoyda, a high-ranking clergy member of the Russian Orthodox Church who served as Patriarch ...