KENAI, Alaska — A Russian Orthodox church in Kenai is looking to install a new fire-suppressing system to protect the religious art and historical artifacts that reside next to dozens of candles.

A procession carries St. Olga's casket from the old Orthodox cemetery to the new St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church as part of her glorification ceremony in Kwethluk on June 19, 2025.

Pope Francis on Ukraine’s Russian Orthodox Church ban: ‘Churches are not to be touched!’ Pope Francis greets the faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square on Aug. 25, 2024. | Credit: Vatican Media ...

ROME – Though without naming it specifically, Pope Francis appeared on Sunday to criticize a new law in Ukraine restricting the activities of the Russian Orthodox Church, a measure which has ...

Long suspected as a tool of Russian soft power, the Russian Orthodox Church has openly embraced the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine. That’s accelerated efforts in a growing number of countries to ...

WINFIELD — Members of the Russian Orthodox Christian Church welcomed the bishop of Syracuse to the new temple in Winfield on Wednesday morning. Bishop Luke of Syracuse, abbot of Holy Trinity ...

In 2019, Ukraine's Orthodox Church was granted independence from the Russian Orthodox Church by the ecumenical patriarch in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey). It caused an uproar in Moscow.