On the third day of Easter, I stood in front of the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Kiev, Ukraine. With me was a prominent scholar of American religion who was visiting Eastern Europe for the first time. We ...

MOSCOW – More than 10 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian Orthodox Church is still recovering from damage done to its churches and monasteries. Last week, the church and its ...

DULUTH (AP) -- For close to half a century, Sam Miscevich has rung the bells of St. George Serbian Orthodox Church. Every Sunday the bells ring from the tower of the church that's set on a hill in ...

SOUTH CANAAN TWP. – They came from near and far Saturday, called by faith to the 113th annual pilgrimage at St. Tikhon of Zadonsk Orthodox Monastery. America’s oldest Orthodox monastery, St. Tikhon’s ...

The bells of Lowell House at Harvard–so much a part of the university’s tradition that they have their own society of bell ringers–will soon return to the Russian monastery from which they were sold ...

As the sun began to rise high above the wine-dark Aegean Sea, the twelve bells of Great Lavra monastery on Mount Athos pealed out a welcome. In the rock-strewn bay at the foot of the 500-ft.

MOSCOW - Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II has consecrated 18 newly cast brass bells destined for Harvard University in a trade that will return the originals to Russia nearly 80 years after they ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A set of church bells rang out for the first time on Friday after being returned to Moscow's oldest monastery from the United States nearly 80 years after they were sold off as ...

It’s finally back to Russia for a set of antique Russian bells that have been on the Harvard University campus since 1930. After escaping imminent destruction by Soviet authorities, the bells have ...

Russia is bringing home from the United States 18 sacred Moscow monastery bells that had been sold as scrap by the Soviet Union. Charles Crane, a U.S. industrialist and diplomat, bought the Danilovsky ...

A set of antique bells given to Harvard University in 1930 is creating a bigger din than officials want to hear. The bells once belonged to Moscow’s Saint Danilov Monastery, thought to be the oldest ...