The Russian leader shocked Kremlinologists by asking the country’s top priest “to engrave his own initials” on chains for the crosses worn by soldiers. [email protected] Got a tip?

Putin has asked Patriarch Kirill to consecrate them. Soldiers of the Russian occupation army, as well as their commanders, will be given body crosses with the initials of Russian President Vladimir ...

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (L) and Russia's Orthodox ... Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that the most deserving fighters in the Ukrainian war will be decorated with military ...

Russia’s Vladimir Putin, accompanied by Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, visits the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius in the town of Sergiyev Posad outside Moscow on June 26, 2024. (Source: Getty Images) ...

7. Putin decided that Russian troops lacked religious symbols and icons, prompting him to distribute crosses with his initials to soldiers before sending them to die on Ukrainian soil. On Orthodox ...

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) militants have reportedly harassed Greek Orthodox Christians in the Valley of the Christians who are openly wearing crosses. The situation continues to deteriorate in the ...

Greek Orthodox bishop at the Great Blessing of Waters on Theophany, throwing the cross off the Glenelg Jetty, South Australia, for one of the swimmers below to retrieve. Credit: Maggas/Wikimedia ...

The first 50 ultra-Orthodox soldiers were drafted for regular service in the Israel Defense Forces’ new Haredi brigade, known as the Hasmonean Brigade, the military said on Sunday. The ...

The Israeli military has enlisted the first batch of about 50 recruits into its new ultra-Orthodox brigade after a controversial decision to end their decades-long exemption from service. By the ...

Turning up to negotiations with Ukraine still holding on to Russian territory, even small parcels, will weaken Putin. Pro-Russian social media channels showed screenshots of Ukrainian forces ...

Ukraine used two tanks, a dozen armored vehicles and a demolition unit in Sunday's assault, which was headed towards the village of Berdin – about 9 miles northeast of Sudzha, the Russian ...

The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Russian and North Korean soldiers were slaughtered in an attack on a Kursk village. He said that up to a "battalion of soldiers” of ...