Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a keynote address on Nov. 28 at the Plenary Session of the World Russian Peoples’ Concilium, a faith-based organization led by the head of Russia's Orthodox ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON — Patriarch Kirill, leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, has been a loyal ally of President Vladimir Putin for years.

The regime of Vladimir Putin is using the Russian Orthodox Church in efforts to repress other faiths not only in Ukraine and other foreign countries but within Russia’s borders, clergy and rights ...

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Last weekend, at a special midnight service in a packed church in Udine, in northeast Italy, a priest led his flock of Ukrainian, Russian and Eastern European immigrants through their usual Orthodox ...

Russian society is split about the war in Ukraine, and we really don't know just how much. Polls are not believed to be reliable. A new law threatening jail time for "fake" news and discrediting the ...

When Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus’ was head of the Russian Orthodox Church’s external relations department, he would occasionally come to Washington, where the Librarian of Congress, James ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). Photo: Getty Images The World Russian People's Council led by ...

Enthroned as Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus’ in 2009 by the Synod of Bishops, Patriarch Kirill has presided over a period of dynamic change and development in the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). Under ...

The damaged entrance of the Orthodox Christian monastery in Sviatohirsk, in eastern Ukraine, in April.yasuyoshi chiba/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images The Ukrainian arm of the Russian Orthodox Church ...

(RNS) — The 11th assembly of the World Council of Churches approved a statement on Thursday (Sept. 8) regarding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. (RNS) — After a sometimes tense week that included ...