The Reverend Tom Mumford, vicar of Ipswich Minster, described the redesignation as being about "status" not service. Mr ...

Military medic Natalya carried a jug of water blessed by priests at the Sviatogirsk monastery in east Ukraine as she ...

Some Orthodox Christians continue to mark Epiphany in Russian-affiliated churches, even as Kyiv moves toward banning the Moscow-linked Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC).

Pope Francis on Sunday criticized President-elect Donald Trump's reported plan to sharply intensify immigration enforcement ...

Russians in the southern city of Anapa took their traditional Epiphany dips in waters affected by a major oil spill, ...

Denis Pogrebnoy from Karelia posted poems about 'foreign agents' and political prisoners on his social media page.

Thousands of Orthodox Christians marked the feast day of Epiphany on Sunday with a traditional dip into icy water.

However local emergency services in some regions cancelled events, saying it was too hazardous for worshippers to cut bathing ...

Thousands of Russians celebrating the Orthodox Christian feast day of Epiphany, where worshippers bathe in the icy waters of ...

A church tower which includes a brass plaque commemorating one of the people fictionalised in BBC TV drama Gentleman Jack is ...

While many churches are seeing a decline in parishioners, the church on Salisbury Street is seeing an increase in their pews.

Thousands of Russians celebrating the Orthodox Christian feast day of Epiphany, where worshippers bathe in the icy waters of ...