Bruin guard Eyoseph Efseaff fasted from sundown Tuesday to sundown Wednesday, but he’s not someone who got the day of Yom Kippur wrong. Efseaff belongs to the Russian Molokan church, a Christian ...

When Ivan Varonin passed away in late June at the age of 81, he was the oldest member of the Russian-speaking Christian community of Molokans left in the tiny Azerbaijani mountain village of Karinovka ...

It's not often that you encounter a village that makes you feel like an "outsider" in Armenia but this is one of the few that do, and in every sense of the word. It's not that the residents of this ...

Yekaterina Filippovich Belonging to a Christian subgroup, the Molokans were oppressed in tsarist Russia and Turkey, where they were called heretics and uprooted from their home and hearth. And every ...

Molokans are a Christian sect who split from the Russian Orthodox Church in the late 16th century. The sect’s name, derived from the Russian for milk, refers to their refusal to give up milk and meat ...

Eyoseph Esi Efseaff is a rising star as offensive lineman on the UCLA football team, but when he arrived at the campus on his initial recruiting trip, he startled the coaches with an unexpected ...

In a small Armenian village, members of the Russian-speaking Molokan community practice their faith and work the land as they have for hundreds of years. These "spiritual Christians" are the ...