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

Although some Russian Orthodox priests have spoken out against “war liturgies,” they don’t all hold the same positions. Some ...

While Pope Francis previously announced plans to travel to Turkey, one possible obstacle to a universal agreement could be ...

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 ...

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

Former CIA officer John Kiriakou retracted his claim that the U.S. paid the Ecumenical Patriarchate to grant autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church ...

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

The Ukrainian patriarch likened the Russian political concept “Ruskiy Mir,” or “Russian World,” to that of radical Islamism. “The ideology of the ‘Russian world’ is Russian jihadism ...

recognized the Orthodox Church of Ukraine as independent from Moscow in 2019 — a move that prompted Russian Patriarch Kirill and the Russian Orthodox Church to sever contact. “No force can ...

Russia’s security service reported that it intercepted a plan to assassinate a prominent Orthodox hierarch, believed to have ...

On Lighthouse Faith podcast, Yevstratiy recalled how at the start of the war, Moscow's Patriarch Kirill sermonized to Russian soldiers fighting against Ukraine that if they die in battle they would ...