MOSCOW (AP) — A former Russian Orthodox monk, who denied that the coronavirus existed and defied the Kremlin, was handed a seven-year prison sentence Friday. Nikolai Romanov, 67, who was known as ...

KODIAK, Alaska — A high-order Russian monk stopped in Kodiak while on a pilgrimage that retraces the steps of St. Innocent, the first Russian Orthodox Bishop of Alaska. Father Eugenii Startsev and a ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has urged monks not to use cellphones to access the Internet in order to avoid temptation. "Now the Internet appears to be a great temptation ...

On July 20, a Rus­sian court or­dered Father Sergiy, an influential monk who has denied the existence of the new corona­virus and urged his followers to ignore government lockdown orders, to pay a ...

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has urged monks not to use cellphones to access the Internet in order to avoid temptation. “Now the Internet appears to be a great temptation,” Patriarch Kirill ...

Nov. 22—A monk with the Russian Orthodox Church in Kodiak was sentenced Monday to five years in prison for sexually abusing a child. Evan P. Nicolai, 60, turned himself in to police in October 2021 ...

Myanmar military junta has allocated land in the commercial capital and largest city, Yangon, to build a Russian Orthodox Church, a move observers see as the further warming up of ties between the ...