Three and a half years into Russia's full-scale invasion, the Ukrainian branch of the Russian Orthodox Church is finally facing its judgment day. Under a law passed in 2024, the branch — the Ukrainian ...

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 country ...

Russian forces carried out an airstrike on a church of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in ...

The Ukrainian parliament has banned a branch of the Orthodox church, linked to the Russian Orthodox Church. Kyiv says the church, called the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), has been spreading ...

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 they ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his defense minister to implement a temporary ceasefire in Ukraine for 36 hours this week to allow Orthodox Christians to attend Christmas services, ...

Sweden has opened up a probe into a Russian Orthodox church in the town of Västerås over possible links to the Kremlin’s hybrid warfare techniques. An investigation by outlet France24 revealed that ...

As President Donald Trump's administration works toward a diplomatic end to the war in Ukraine, the leaders of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) are warning that Vladimir Putin's Russia believes it ...