Torturing and killing pastors and priests, prosecuting residents for exercising religious freedom, banning worship and entire ...

Russia seriously violates religious freedom in the land it illegally occupies in Ukraine, Forum 18 said in a new report.

The Feb. 24 anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine was an opportunity to offer "ever more fervent prayers for peace," ...

“There’s a heavy silence in the Russian Orthodox Church, which remains largely nationalist and aligned with the Patriarchate,” confirmed Antoine Nivière, a Russian culture expert at the ...

An imprisoned Ukrainian Orthodox Church priest has been sent to a hard labor camp in Russia to serve a 14-year sentence on ...

An imprisoned Ukrainian Orthodox Church priest has been sent 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) from his parish in Russian-occupied Ukraine to a hard labor camp in Russia to serve his 14-year sentence on ...

Russia's FSB security service said on Friday (February 28, 2025) it had arrested two church figures suspected of plotting to kill a priest close to President Vladimir Putin on the instructions of ...

Russia Arrests Two Church Figures Over Alleged Ukrainian Plot to Kill Priest Close to Putin By Lucy Papachristou (Reuters) - Russia's FSB security service said on Friday it had arrested two church ...

The appeal comes as Moldova's Orthodox Church, which boasts 90 per cent of the nation’s churchgoers amongst its ranks, wrestles with a split in loyalties between competing branches of the church ...

Photo: Ukrainian Presidentia/Zuma Press/Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images Monday marks the third anniversary of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, and the Kremlin marked the ...

A native of the Orenburg region, he graduated from the Saratov Theological Seminary ... Russia", - stated on the website of the Orenburg Metropolitanate of the Russian Orthodox Church. Where Ivan ...

LONDON, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Russia's overheating economy is on the cusp of serious cooling, as huge fiscal stimulus, soaring interest rates, stubbornly high inflation and Western sanctions take ...