after the Russian national emblem was displayed without its Orthodox crosses. Newsweek has contacted the Kremlin for comment by email. Under the leadership of Ramzan Kadyrov, the predominantly Muslim ...

Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, has justified Putin's decision to invade Ukraine in February 2022 on spiritual and ideological grounds. In the 10 months since the Russian ...

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The Russian Orthodox church on the outskirts ... Alaska Native spirit houses sit by aging gravesites alongside Orthodox crosses poking from the cemetery grounds. The narrow church with white ...

16) with coffee, muffins and a welcome table papered with reimagined Southern state flags: each overlaid with a white three-bar Russian Orthodox cross. Philip Ludwell III, the fellowship’s ...

The distinctive Orthodox cross and tiny church cupolas crown the tombstones, most inscribed with the Russian Cyrillic alphabet. Many bear black-and-white images of the interred — some 12,000 ...

DUBASARI VECHI, Moldova -- Sitting in the darkened nave of the church where he has led prayers and provided spiritual support for 19 years, a silver crucifix pendant standing out against his black ...

The Russian Orthodox Church is an outspoken exception ... In “The Baton and the Cross”, Lucy Ash, a journalist, offers an authoritative look at the closeness of church and state under Vladimir ...

Russian settlements sprang up across Alaska ... where graves incorporate religious conventions like Orthodox crosses, which have three cross beams with the lowest slanted, with the Dena’ina ...