Last month, the Russian Orthodox Church canonized a new saint: Olga Michael, who lived in the small ton of Kwethluk, Alaska, until her death in 1979. St. Olga is the first Yup’ik to be canonized in ...

Cyril and Methodius were the Greek linguists whose translation of Christian texts into the Slavic language inspired Fr. John Veniaminov, later St. Innocent of Alaska, to establish Alaska’s first ...

It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire life as a midwife and ...

A man in Alaska has been arrested and charged with damaging a dozen Orthodox grave sites after authorities said they were ...

She grew up in the Antiochian Orthodox Church, sister to the Greek and Russian Orthodox churches. Her family lived two blocks from their church. Her family and the priest's family were close.