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 ...

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 ...

MOSCOW, June 8 (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 ...

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 ...