The Rev. Zelneronok was ordained a priest in the Latvian Orthodox Church in 1936, in Riga, Latvia. During World War II, he escaped capture and possible execution from the Russian Army after it ...

Following the Julian calendar, millions of Orthodox Christians around the world celebrate Christmas on January 6 and 7 — for instance, in Egypt, Serbia or Armenia. DW has met with a family from ...

Riga's demand for autocephaly to the Latvian Orthodox Church is discrimination on religious grounds and an attempt to break the foundations of Orthodoxy, said Gennady Askaldovich, special ...

Sergei Dyomin, one of the highest-earning artists in the Latvian capital, Riga, has built his fame around a singular motif -- re-creating Orthodox icons where the saints bear the faces of monkeys ...

But the Latvian Prosecutor General’s Office closed its case against Cukurs on April 4, according to Ilya Lensky, the director of the Jews in Latvia Museum who presented research on Cukurs.

A winter guide to Riga, Latvia's petite, snow-dusted capital In the Latvian capital, pagan traditions are closely observed to mark the winter solstice — but there’s also a creative ...

Latvia’s Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs believes that as war rages in Europe, the Church has a fundamental task: “to keep the moral compass not to let the world lose humanity ...

The archbishop of Riga, Latvia, spoke about the critical need for ecumenical cooperation.

Nowadays only 20% of Latvian residents go to church on Christmas, but more and more people with each passing year take part in worldly festivities and open-air merry-making.

Riga, 17 November 2000 (RFE/RL) - Latvian police have arrested three members of a small, extremist Russian communist group that had barricaded themselves inside St. Peter's Church in Riga and ...

Latvia’s Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs believes that as war rages in Europe, the Church has a fundamental task: “to keep the moral compass not to let the world lose humanity ...