MOSCOW — Braving freezing cold temperatures and ice-covered sidewalks, tens of thousands of Russians stood in line Wednesday to see and kiss a newly arrived relic of the Virgin Mary in Russia’s ...

After spending nearly nine decades forgotten in a Moscow storeroom during the Soviet era, some relics of Russian Orthodox St. Serafim of Sarov should soon be circling the globe aboard the ...

Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryzhikov uses a sat phone shortly after landing near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan Monday, April 10, 2017, on the treeless Central Asian steppes. Russia’s Soyuz MS-02 space capsule ...

Icons have been a part of the Russian Orthodox faith for thousands of years as a physical expression of worship. They’ve been displayed at churches, carried into battle and each iron has been publicly ...

MOSCOWMOSCOW — Braving freezing cold temperatures and ice-covered sidewalks, tens of thousands of Russians stood in line Wednesday to see and kiss a newly arrived relic of the Virgin Mary in Russia’s ...

VATICAN CITY, Nov. 27 -- Pope John Paul II on Saturday handed over the bones of two saints to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, in hopes that ...

PETROZAVODSK, Russia, Jan. 28 (UPI) -- Two highly regarded relics of the Russian Orthodox Church are completing their tour of the country this month, before being returned to Jerusalem. The right hand ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In what Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople described as a “brave and bold” gesture, Pope Francis gave the patriarch a famous reliquary containing bone ...

Pope John Paul II, seeking to heal rifts with other Christians, on Saturday handed over the relics of two Orthodox saints that were brought to Rome from ancient Constantinople centuries ago. Subscribe ...

Pope Francis Gives Relic of St. Peter's Bones to Orthodox Patriarch The Holy Father had previously brought the bronze reliquary containing the purported bone fragments for public veneration in St.

After a two-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, thousands of Romanian Orthodox believers took to the streets of Bucharest to honor Demetrius the New, the city's patron saint, as part of a ...