In this file image, Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulates Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill on the 13th anniversary of his enthronement in Moscow, Russia, on Feb. 1, 2022. (Alexei ...

HOWELL - The head of the Russian Orthodox Church outside of Russia journeyed to a small residential neighborhood in Howell Tuesday, enrobed in ornate vestments to bless the renovated St. George's ...

In February 2022, as Russian tanks rolled across the Ukrainian border, a small group of Russian Orthodox Christian clergy did ...

A small number of Russian Orthodox priests are publicly opposing their leader's support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and they're suffering the consequences.

When he got to its small, darkened main hall, the 79-year-old put a simple silver cross over his robes and began saying prayers on one of the holiest days in the Russian Orthodox Church. His ...

Updated at 2:00 p.m. ET on May 9, 2024. In late August of 2018, Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, flew from Moscow to Istanbul on an urgent mission. He brought with him ...

The other separate, but similarly-named church, Orthodox Church of Ukraine, was officially recognized as independent by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople in 2019, but the Russian ...

TOM: IT’S A SMALL SIGN WITAH BIG MESSAGE. THIS RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH IN CARNEGIE SAYING IT’S UNITED IN PRARYER FOR THE PEACE OF UKRAINE. AND IT MEANS A LOT TO THEIR NEIGHBORS RIGHT NEXT DOOR ...

MOSCOW (RNS) — Protesters caused Russian church officials to cancel plans for a new cathedral in Yekaterinburg, the country’s fourth-largest city. Protesters were angered that the cathedral ...

A Ukrainian serviceman stands inside an Orthodox church heavily damaged by Russian bombardment in Novoekonomichne, in eastern Ukraine, on September 17, 2024.

Two century-old churches sit next to each other on a main street in the small community of Carnegie, outside of Pittsburgh. St. Peter & St. Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Church, at left, and the Holy ...