“It is better to marry than to burn,” the apostle Paul famously wrote, but even better was to douse the flames of lust with an analogous but more elevated communion with God, to partake in wha ...

The rites are administered by either a Patriarch, a Major Archbishop ... and then request ecclesiastical communion from the Pope. Major Archbishops are also elected by a synod of bishops of ...

where its Patriarch is based; the Ukraine Orthodox Church, the main religious association in Ukraine, has now during the war broken away from the Russian Orthodox Church, indeed caused by the ...

MOSCOW (JTA) — The newly elected head of the Russian Orthodox Church reached out to Jewish leaders. Patriarch Kirill, who was elected at a session in Moscow last week and enthroned Sunday ...

LONDON (AP) — Russian special forces walked inside a gas pipeline to strike Ukrainian units from the rear in the Kursk region, Ukraine’s military and Russian war bloggers reported ...

More than 50,000 Russian troops have deserted and gone absent without leave since Russia widened its war on Ukraine three years ago, according to a new report from Ukrainian analysis group ...

LONDON — Russian special forces walked inside a gas pipeline to strike Ukrainian units from the rear in the Kursk region, Ukraine’s military and Russian war bloggers reported, as Moscow moves ...

Firefighters put out the fire following a Russian rocket attack in Dobropillya, Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Saturday. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP) LONDON — Russian special forces walked ...

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, released doves from the steps of Moscow's Annunciation Cathedral ...