the residence of the Russian presidency. The Kremlin is more like a fortress than a residence, with a series of 16th-century cathedrals, including the famous Spasskaya Tower. Also within the Red ...

This day marks a number of important dates related to various spheres of life: from history and culture to health and ...

(It became the precursor of the Russian "cyrillic" alphabet ... translations could receive approval from the Church. In 1582 the famous Douay-Rheims New Testament translation was completed ...

Russian author Leo Tolstoy, who wrote “War and Peace,” had a midlife crisis. He had lived most of his life trying to get rich and famous ... to my neighbors, my church and my grandchildren.

What follows is a twisty journey of papal politics, disagreements about the future of the Catholic Church ... the rich and famous. She meets Vanya, the son of an uber-wealthy Russian oligarch ...

Maybe those women included the town’s famous native daughter, Mary of Magdala. Worshippers on Holy Saturday, the day before Easter, celebrate the Miracle of the Holy Fire at Jerusalem's Church ...

Share mothy Snyder has also noted that our present-day “oligarchs” bear an increasing resemblance to the Russian ... his famous “Letter on Toleration” while in exile in Amsterdam in the mid-1680s. The ...

The wooden churches themselves reflect harmony through the shapes used and showcase Russian history as well as complex and artistic carpentry. 7- Catherine Palace Catherine’s Palace is a famous ...

Across Russian-occupied Ukraine, Kremlin troops have shuttered places of worship since the first invasion began in 2014.

The Russian Orthodox Church seeks to increase the number of military chaplains deployed with Russian forces in Ukraine ...

"Nikolai Balashov is a former KGB colonel general. Balashov is described as one of the darkest figures in the Russian Orthodox Church with a significant role in provoking the conflict in Donbas ...

A number of Orthodox priests who are against Russia's invasion of Ukraine have sought refuge in Germany, where they face many ...