The acclaimed Ukrainian author and essayist talks about his experience as a Soviet-born, Russian-speaking novelist, the ...

We are committed to supporting all religious denominations in terms of the training of clergy in the country, Belarusian ...

ZURICH — Russia and Belarus are to remain frozen out of International Ice Hockey Federation competitions through the 2025-26 season. The IIHF decision on Tuesday covers all world championships ...

A young transgender man is suing an Orthodox monk from Greece's monastic community of Mount Athos (Agion Oros) following the monk's public remarks against him. According to reports from Greek ...

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) has designated three churches in Manila, Quezon City, and San Mateo, Rizal as national shrines. In a statement Sunday, the CBCP said that the ...

Long-time leader of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, once dubbed "Europe's last dictator", has been re-elected president with 86.8% of the vote. The result has been condemned as a sham by Lukashenko ...

The idea of “Free love,” as it was called, rankled him and was not in keeping with his Orthodox Jewish upbringing ... I recalled a famous Mark Twain quote. In speaking about his dad, Twain ...

Belarus held an orchestrated election over the weekend that the opposition and the EU rejected as a farce, extending authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko's more than three decades in power ...

Alexander Lukashenko, Europe’s longest-serving leader, has extended his 31-year rule in Belarus after being declared the winner of a presidential election that his exiled opponents and Western ...

“You can congratulate the Republic of Belarus, we have elected a president,” Igor Karpenko, the head of the country’s Central Election Commission, told a news conference in the early hours ...

The EU and the US both said they did not acknowledge him as legitimate leader of Belarus. In 2020, Mr Lukashenko used his security forces to crush mass protests following the last election ...

Longtime Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko has been declared winner of a disputed presidential election, securing a seventh straight term, according to the country’s electoral body.