Having spent much of the last 35 years in conflict with one another, the governments of Armenia and Azerbaijan now have a ...

Today in History for July 17: In 1505, future church reformer, Martin Luther entered the Augustinian monastic order at Erfurt in present day eastern Germany. He was 21. In 1674, the second census of ...

Tchaikovsky was neither American, nor a founding father, but his “1812 Overture” has become the soundtrack to our ...

St. Olga, a Yup'ik woman who died in 1979 at age 63, was a midwife, a mother of 13 and the wife of an Orthodox Christian ...

The first female Orthodox saint in North America was an Indigenous woman who spent her entire life with her Yup'ik family and ...

A new exhibition spotlights Natalia Pavlovna Paley, the granddaughter of a czar. She built a new life for herself in France ...

By Paul Hannon Russia's central bank on Friday lowered its key interest rate for the first time since late 2022 despite an inflation rate that remains well above target. The Bank of Russia cut its ...

As Russia-Ukraine peace talks resume this week, the former US ambassador to China said that while any possible role for Beijing should be welcomed, its participation must be taken with a grain of ...

Russia takes over a second Orthodox church in Nice The courts have ruled in favor of Moscow, which claimed ownership of the French Riviera church that had been managed for more than a century by ...

Russian forces said they have retaken St Nicholas Belogorsky monastery in the village of Gornal in Russia’s Kursk region, where Ukrainian troops had been based, Russia’s TASS news agency ...