Founded by priests and clergy fleeing the Russian Revolution in 1917, ROCOR is seen by many as the most conservative Orthodox ...

The Supreme head of the Syriac Orthodox Church anointed the new leader of their Church in India during a solemn ceremony in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, on March 25. Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, the ...

a group that had its beginnings with monks of the Russian Orthodox Church who set up missions in Alaska. The Orthodox Church in America split from Russia in 1924 after disruptions from the 1917 ...

Vladimir Putin met the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, on Tuesday with gifts he asked the Patriarch to bless for troops fighting in Ukraine. The meeting at a Christmas ...

An order from India’s top court has rekindled hope for settling a property dispute between two warring factions of the Oriental Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch, which is based in southern Kerala ...

IN A move towards autonomy from Moscow, the Estonian Orthodox Church Moscow Patriarchate (EOC-MP) is to change its statute to remove any references to the Russian Orthodox Church. On the same day as ...

Pope Francis on Sunday condemned the Ukraine government's move to ban a Russia-linked branch of the country's Orthodox Church. "Do not touch churches," the pope said in his weekly prayers ...

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, this week defended a new Ukrainian law that aims to limit the influence of the Russian Orthodox Church in the ...

Languages: English. The Ukrainian parliament has banned a branch of the Orthodox church, linked to the Russian Orthodox Church. Kyiv says the church, called the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC ...

Ukraine has adopted a law to ban religious groups linked to Moscow in a move targeting the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which the government has accused of complicity in Russia’s full-scale ...

Rothman and Jessica Tarlov Discuss and Debate the Antisemitic Assassinations Ukraine is on the verge of effectively banning the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, accusing it of being tied to Moscow ...

Alaska -- toward the historic St. Michael's Russian Orthodox Cathedral. "Everyone in town ran to the church and started passing things out, hand to hand, in long chains of people," said Father ...