Although some Russian Orthodox priests have spoken out against “war liturgies,” they don’t all hold the same positions. Some ...

Stalin was educated at an Orthodox Christian seminary, according to Simon Sebag Montefiore's biography Young Stalin. While neither of Stalin's two wives have any recorded Jewish ancestry ...

Orthodox monasteries became the spiritual ... "social misfits," and even Moscow's Chinese launderers, all caught up in Stalin's orgy of death. But Patriarch Alexy was resolved: "We are now ...

Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested ... noting parallels to Soviet state antisemitism under Josef Stalin, when the Kremlin persecuted Jews and ...

As the Nazi troops were getting closer to Moscow, Joseph Stalin issued an order to find the Russian Orthodox priests who would bless defense lines around the capital with prayer NEW YORK ...

Pope Pius XII last week challenged the unholy alliance between Atheist Joseph Stalin and his tame churchman, the Patriarch Alexei of Moscow, head of the Orthodox Church in Russia. The Pope charged ...

“The priests of the Greek Orthodox Church are to be seen in the ... of humble parents who reared him as devoutly as Joseph Stalin was brought up by his Old Mother whose dearest wish was to ...

the first of which was established in a former Orthodox monastery in the Solovetsky Islands in 1923. Religious leaders and laypeople of all kinds suffered under Stalin, who was once himself a ...