There were martyrs, thieves, illiterate people and devoted missionaries, people who dropped out of faith and morals and people who stood for their Orthodox faith until the very end - through almost ...

Getty Images; Public Domain They were regarded as some of the best fighters in the Qing Empire and their descendants still live in China today. The battle for the Far East In the middle of the 17th ...

They were regarded as some of the best fighters in the Qing Empire and their descendants still live in China today. In the middle of the 17th century, the Russian and Chinese civilizations, which ...

BEIJING — In the latest sign of warming ties between Moscow and Beijing, the Russian Orthodox Church ordained its first Chinese priest in 60 years, with the blessing of China's atheist, Communist ...

AS A colleague has written in this week's print edition, Christianity in China is experiencing spectacular, but turbulent, growth; by one estimate, the number of Chinese Christians could by 2030 have ...

THE RUSSIAN Orthodox Church last Sunday conducted Christmas Mass in China for the first time in more than 50 years. Before midnight, some 50 worshippers filed into the remnants of the Orthodox ...