The Holy Dormition Stavropegic Monastery in Zhirovichi is rightly referred to as Belarus’ jewel of Orthodoxy At the beginning of ...

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I have huge admiration for kindness of Baptists and hug respect for diligence of Old Believers, Belarusian President ...

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 ...

When a farmer saw the pile of stones that would become Sør-Fron Church, he reportedly wondered if the church was not supposed to be hollow. That was how large the pile needed to be to build that ...

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 ...

Belarusian air defense shot down a Russian Shahed drone that entered the country's airspace in the overnight attack on Ukraine, Belarusian Hajun monitoring group wrote on Jan. 28. Observers reported ...

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 ...

On January 13, the Christian church Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) mobilized more than a million of its members in the capital Manila to call for peace and unity. The gathering, which coincided with the ...

Belarusian President and presidential candidate Alexander Lukashenko attends a press conference after casting his vote in the presidential election in Minsk, Belarus, January 26, 2025. File ...

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The head of the Central Commission of the Republic of Belarus Igor Karpenko, fifth from left, and his ...