Stephen Hubbard was a wanderer. But when he moved to Ukraine, the war brought arrest, torture and imprisonment. He turns 73 ...

Dozens of Orthodox faithful attended today the celebration of a ceremony of consecration and raising of the cross in the bell tower under construction of the Orthodox temple of the Holy Righteous ...

A Ukrainian delegation to the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington will make the case that Russia threatens the religious ...

Explore religious figures shaping global events in 2025. From influential leaders to rising voices, this four-part series ...

The area is a very popular meeting spot, and one of the most beautiful squares in Moscow, with the famous statue of Russian poet Alexander ... sights like the famous Church of St. Nicholas of ...

A number fled Russia, fearing prosecution, or were banned from ministry by the Russian Orthodox Church controlled by Moscow. Others were imprisoned for speaking out against Russia’s aggression in ...

SOFIA - Nikolai Balashov, a senior Russian Orthodox priest sanctioned by Ukraine and reportedly a former KGB colonel general, was granted entry into Bulgaria following the Patriarch’s invitation and ...

Putin said the church was “being tortured ... Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, the former chief rabbi of Moscow who left Russia after refusing to support the invasion of Ukraine, tweeted ...

MOSCOW, February 4. /TASS/. The authorities in the Baltic countries are orchestrating a campaign of pressure against Orthodox parishes, taking cues from Ukraine, according to Gennady Askaldovich, the ...

The Church publishes the Monitor because ... Fred Weir has been the Monitor's Moscow correspondent, covering Russia and the former Soviet Union, since 1998. He's traveled over much of that vast ...