One morning in October of 2023, Miami police were called to remove a “squatter” who had, or so the ecclesiastical complainants claimed, taken up illegal residence in one of South Florida’s oldest ...

Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested that they lacked family and “roots,” the latest antisemitic statement from the Russian leader since his 2022 ...

The Feb. 24 anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine was an opportunity to offer "ever more fervent prayers for peace," ...

The Russian Orthodox Church was rising everywhere ... Then, finding funds and labor where he could, he rebuilt the churches and restored the grounds. The results are stunning: Busloads of pilgrims ...

“Putin wants to rebuild the Russian Empire — if Ukraine ... religious groups not aligned with the Russian Orthodox Church are persecuted.” Archbishop Shevchuk described the forced ...

As President Donald Trump's administration works toward a diplomatic end to the war in Ukraine, the leaders of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) are warning that Vladimir Putin's Russia ...

But why has Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Orthodox Church, so zealously backed it? Kirill has lamented the war as “internecine strife” between Orthodox brothers, but when Russian generals faced a ...

MOSCOW, October 20. /TASS/. The Russian Orthodox Church has recognized Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople as a schismatic based on the Orthodox Church canons, Metropolitan Hilarion ...

As the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the “Days of Slavic Culture”, which yearly begins on the feast of Sts. Cyril and Methodius (May 11/24), Pravoslavie.ru ...

MINSK, October 15./TASS/. The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church has urged all local Orthodox churches to jointly look for ways to solve the church crisis in Ukraine. The statement issued ...