Each year, a wooden structure is set alight at the Maslenitsa ... Belarus and Ukraine and traditionally marks the end of winter, which the Orthodox Church has accommodated as a week of feasting.

The need for a seasonal declutter session spans centuries — and continents. We explore the history of spring cleaning and how ...

In recent weeks, Carrell was told to leave and take his church with him, or face an investigation due to his LGBTQ-affirming ...

The Eastern Orthodox Church uses the Julian calendar ... you can find fake eggs made of foam, clay, wood or plastic to decorate with materials like paint, sequins, stickers, gems or cloth.

Similar to Easter, Orthodox Easter is commemorated by attending joyous church services ... And in Russia, Easter eggs are made of wood then painted with traditional designs and images.

Russia's FSB security service said on Friday it had arrested two church figures suspected of plotting to kill a priest close to President Vladimir Putin on the orders of a Ukrainian spy agency.

Vladimir Putin (R) listens to Orthodox Church Metropolitan Tikhon Shevkunov ... a box and fake passports from a hiding place in a wood. Ukraine has taken responsibility for a number of ...

A decade later, the pastor who baptized her that day at the Southeast Project, a Church of God (Anderson ... “Moving from the orthodox biblical definition of sexual identity and marriage ...