Alexander Churchill, 10, will light the VE Day 80th Anniversary Candle of Peace.

But Pope Leo must walk a fine line: if he is too critical of Moscow, he risks alienating the Russian Orthodox faithful and ...

The police have already identified several violations related to the 9th of May, said State Police Chief Armands Ruks in an ...

MOSCOW/LONDON/BERLIN/PARIS: As Europe and Russia celebrate the 80th anniversary of VE Day that marked the end of World War II ...

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church recently commended Vladimir Putin over his handling of church and state relations ...

The Monastery of Simonos Petra clings almost impossibly to a sheer cliff above the Aegean Sea in northern Greece.

Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence has also accused the Church of appointing ‘curators’ to advance the ideals of the ‘Russian ...

Under the leadership of Ramzan Kadyrov, the predominantly Muslim southern Russian republic of Chechnya has maintained a high degree of autonomy while remaining loyal to the Kremlin and Russian ...

The Monastery of Simonos Petra clings almost impossibly to a sheer cliff above the Aegean Sea in northern Greece.

MOSCOW, May 9 (Reuters) - Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, sent a message of congratulations on Friday to Pope Leo, whose predecessor Pope Francis had criticised Kirill's ...