About 20 years ago, the Russian state began a large-scale operation to take control of Orthodox parishes all over Europe. Some of these had, over time, broken ties with the Moscow patriarchate.

Ex-President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili, who is serving his sentence in prison, said that Armenian Prime Minister Nikol ...

"St. Olga of Kwethluk, Matushka of All Alaska," as she is officially known, was canonized June 19 as the first female ...

Many of those arrested are taken to prisons in Russia. In one of the most recent cases Forum 18 cited, in mid-February, prison authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea transferred Ukrainian Orthodox ...

Many of those arrested are taken to prisons in Russia. In one of the most recent cases Forum 18 cited, in mid-February, prison authorities in Russian-occupied Crimea transferred Ukrainian Orthodox ...

Such voices have been completely drowned out, however, by the Russian Orthodox Church's primate, Patriarch Kirill, who has lauded Russia's war aims in sermons and speeches in the church's name ...

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

NATO fighter jets were scrambled on Saturday after Russia launched a relentless missile and drone attack on sites across Ukraine - with President Volodymyr Zelensky later saying six civilians had ...

Vladimir Putin met the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, on Tuesday with gifts he asked the Patriarch to bless for troops fighting in Ukraine.

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 ...

Russian Orthodox Church priests who defy Patriarch Kirill and oppose Russia’s war against Ukraine often face a stark choice: Conform or leave. Four priests who say they broke with the church to ...