The Estonian Internal Security Service writes in its new yearbook that the Estonian Christian Orthodox Church — formerly MPEÕK — held covert negotiations with Russia in 2024 to fund a Russian-language ...

Russia's invasion, which began in February 2022, has also been a source of religious controversy within the Eastern Orthodox Church and has driven a split among believers in both Russia and Ukraine.

The Russian Orthodox Church is an outspoken exception. Patriarch Kirill, who leads the church, has described the conflict as a “holy war” and said that any young man who died in action would ...

Much like Anglicanism can never be divorced from its English roots, nor can the Russian Orthodox Church continue to exist without some concept of what it means to be Russian. But as hard-hit as many ...

Pope Francis on Sunday sharply denounced the Ukrainian government’s recently enacted ban on Russian Orthodox Church worship, arguing that the faithful should not be barred from worshipping as ...

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, this week defended a new Ukrainian law that aims to limit the influence of the Russian Orthodox Church in the ...

HOWELL - The head of the Russian Orthodox Church outside of Russia journeyed to a small residential neighborhood in Howell Tuesday, enrobed in ornate vestments to bless the renovated St. George's ...

His suspension was announced by the Moscow Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, which said he would be demoted to the role of psalm-reader. No reason was stated for the punishment, the latest ...

Like Putin’s Russia, the Russian Orthodox Church and its leader, Patriarch Kirill, have completely lost their spiritual bearings and rejected everything that Christianity claims to represent ...

The priests were stripped of their authority last month by the synod of the Metropolis of Chisinau and All Moldova -- the Russian-led church better known as the Moldovan Orthodox Church -- after ...

EKLUTNA, Alaska (AP) — The Russian Orthodox church was established in Alaska on Kodiak Island in 1794 and missionaries spread the faith, baptizing an estimated 18,000 Alaska Natives. EKLUTNA, ...