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 ...

Vladimir Putin congratulated Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia on the 16th anniversary of his enthronement.

A number of Orthodox priests who are against Russia's invasion of Ukraine have sought refuge in Germany, where they face many challenges.

Conceding Ukrainian land to Russia comes with a host of geopolitical downsides, but a lesser-known consequence affects churches: Moscow targets non-Orthodox Christians. Across Russian-occupied ...

Assad's regime, Russia lost a key ally in the Middle East -but it still hopes to keeps its military bases in Syria.

The Church has denounced the war and denies that it depends on Moscow. It has however not carried out autocephaly, the process of formally breaking off from Moscow’s leadership, despite Russian ...

Moscow is seeking to reverse the ... an Estonian entrepreneur, wrote: "The Russian Orthodox Church stated that HIMARS strikes on Russia are God's punishment for abortions. Well, if Putin's mother ...

The area also holds many small churches. One of Moscow's most ... and one of the most beautiful squares in Moscow, with the famous statue of Russian poet Alexander Pushkin at its center.

Traditionally, since 1991, Ukraine has been among the countries where there were no global and systematic problems in the field of religious freedom. It did not fall into the lists of violators of ...

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 ...