Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople received money for the creation of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU). This was ...

A FORMER Russian Orthodox priest, now ministering as an Anglican, has urged Western church support for a close friend ...

Former Greek-American CIA officer John Kiriakou has retracted his earlier claim that the U.S. paid the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople to grant autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church ...

MOSCOW (JTA) — The newly elected head of the Russian Orthodox Church reached out to Jewish leaders. Patriarch Kirill, who was elected at a session in Moscow last week and enthroned Sunday ...

Patriarch Kirill, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, has been an enthusiastic backer of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in which thousands of people have been killed and millions more driven ...

The European Union is bracing for a potential Hungarian veto on extending sanctions against Russia, which are set to expire ...

The intended target, 66-year-old Tikhon Shevkunov, is widely reported in Russian media as Putin’s “confessor.” While the ...

While there is a shared aspiration that the war should end, the realities are having an impact on people living in Ukraine: Patriarch Bartholomew and Metropolitan Epiphany talked about the ...

nor can it be negotiated under the guise of diplomacy,” as he celebrated Mass in Istanbul on the eve of the third anniversary of Russia's war in Ukraine. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of ...

Advertisement Article continues below this ad Bartholomew, who has consistently shown support for Ukraine since the war began, recognized the Orthodox Church of Ukraine as independent from Moscow in ...