Earlier on Sunday, police in Chisinau, tasked with protecting the LGBT during a street march began detaining clergy and believers who had taken to the streets bearing icons and church banners to defen ...

The increasingly powerful Russian Orthodox Church has built hundreds of new churches over the past decade. But some people in ...

Father Moses McPherson's congregation has tripled in size in 18 months, and he has a big following online [BBC] ...

The exclusion of the Orthodox crosses is likely to displease the Russian leader. The incident comes as relations between Putin and the Chechen leader are reported to have deteriorated in recent ...

MOSCOW, May 9 (Reuters) - Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, sent a message of congratulations on Friday to Pope Leo, whose predecessor Pope Francis had criticised Kirill's ...

In this sense, the culture of remembrance upheld by official Russia and the Russian Orthodox Church, through the cult of Red Army victory in the Great Patriotic War, could serve as a healthy model ...

Hamas publishes a propaganda video showing a sign of life from Israeli hostages Elkana Bohbot and Yosef-Haim Ohana, who were both kidnapped from the Nova festival on October 7 and are still being ...

Bartholomew, who has consistently shown support for Ukraine since the war began, recognized the Orthodox Church of Ukraine as independent from Moscow in 2019 — a move that prompted Russian Patriarch ...

(RNS) — Lawmakers in Estonia’s Parliament are debating a draft bill that would effectively require the Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, the Russian Orthodox Church’s ...

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The Russian ... Cross”, Lucy Ash, a journalist, offers an authoritative look at the closeness of church and state under Vladimir Putin. Russia is, in theory, a secular country, yet the Orthodox ...