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

Stalin had taken her suicide ... In 1962, Svetlana was baptized in the Orthodox Church. Explaining this step, she writes, “The sacrament of baptism consists in rejecting evil, the lie.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stalin instituted the Great Purge in the 1930s ... whom I knew as a child from the central Orthodox community. Together with others in the cheder, I attended his wedding in the community courtyard.

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 ...