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The invading Russian forces were indiscriminately ... It was after midnight during the Christmas season, just before World War II, when my grandfather, a Ukrainian Orthodox clergyman, received ...

Great Lent begins with three days of total abstinence, during which, in principle, no food is consumed. The rule of the Orthodox Monastery ... the words of the Russian Saint Seraphim of Sarov ...

Clothes recycling banks are a handy solution to getting rid of items quickly when you are spring cleaning. At this time of ...

DY: Is there anything that these Russian Orthodox members see as essentially rural Appalachian about their religious practice? SRS: The parish had started a yearly event that was focused on something ...

The timing was significant — it was posted on the same day that the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates Christmas Eve, though the Ukrainian church switched in 2023 to celebrating Christmas on Dec ...

TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s Orthodox Church on Sunday elected Joan Pelushi as its new leader following the death in January of Archbishop Anastasios, who had revived the church after the ...

While President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy were duking it out in the Oval Office in a rhetorical version of the Ultimate Fighting Club that ...

Parishioners of All Saints Orthodox Church in Olyphant who are planning the ethnic food sale include, from left, seated: Dave Bruchalski, Ann Schlasta, Linda Stuchlak. Second row: the Very Rev ...

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 ...