Russian authorities said on Thursday they had arrested two men suspected of tunnelling their way by night into an island monastery and stealing a Russian Orthodox icon donated years earlier by ...

Putin shown beside picture of ancient Orthodox icon Putin warns that West wants to destroy Russia Congratulates businessmen for evading sanctions Patriarch Kirill prays Putin will continue MOSCOW, Nov ...

EKLUTNA, Alaska — The Russian Orthodox church on the outskirts of Alaska’s biggest city is packed with treasures for the Christian faithful: religious icons gifted by Romanov czars, panels of oil ...

Hundreds of people gathered in the Western Alaska village of Kwethluk on Saturday to witness the exhumation of Matushka Olga, who will become the first Yup’ik saint of the Russian Orthodox Church next ...

MOSCOW -- Last May, Maria Paphiti, an icons specialist at Christie's auction house in London, was invited to inspect some religious paintings on wood that were among the contents of a building ...

The first sunbeams of Juneau’s rainy May illuminated an icon of St. Nicholas through the window of the makeshift art studio adjacent to St. Nicholas’s Church. The golden paint on the half-finished ...

The fire began in the early hours of Jan. 2, 1966, and spread through the business district of Sitka, Alaska -- toward the historic St. Michael's Russian Orthodox Cathedral. "Everyone in town ran to ...

KOSTROVO, Russia -- Today they would learn about drawing, Russian Orthodox saints and God. The 7-year-olds sat straight at their desks, sun pouring through lace curtains and cherry trees blooming in ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin, whose picture was shown between two giant images of an ancient Orthodox icon on Tuesday, warned the West ahead of elections in March 2024 that any foreign ...

EKLUTNA, Alaska (AP) — The Russian Orthodox church on the outskirts of Alaska's biggest city is packed with treasures for the Christian faithful: religious icons gifted by Romanov czars, panels of oil ...

The Russian Orthodox church on the outskirts of Alaska’s biggest city is packed with treasures for the Christian faithful: religious icons gifted by Romanov czars, panels of oil paintings and ...