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 ...

Credit: MIHAIL, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Have you ever noticed how Catholics and Orthodox Christians cross themselves differently? It’s not random; it’s a fascinating result of a ...

For the first time, this year, the Way of the Cross in the Estonian Capital led to an Orthodox church. For Christians, Good Friday is the darkest day of Easter week. The Way of the Cross, also known ...

He wooed President George W. Bush, early in his first term, by regaling the born-again Christian with a story about how his mother’s Orthodox cross was supposedly rescued from a fire in her dacha.

A year or so after I started wearing it, Russia invaded. When I gaze on the Orthodox Cross that now hangs around my neck, I reflect on the heroism and suffering of the Ukrainian people.