Ilarion, head of the Russian Orthodox Church in Czechia, may be added to the national sanctions list, and the likely future ...

Metropolitan Ilarion, who serves in Karlovy Vary, came under scrutiny after Czech media reported on his possible links to ...

The so-called Islamic State group and Russia use similar tactics: propaganda, disinformation, and targeted recruitment of ...

Sweden has opened up a probe into a Russian Orthodox church in the town of Västerås over possible links to the Kremlin’s hybrid warfare techniques. An investigation by outlet France24 revealed that ...

The Russian authorities canceled a festival in St. Petersburg, branding it “Satanist,” as part of a larger assault on ...

An apparent coordinated attack Sunday in southern Russia has left at least nine people dead, including seven law enforcement officers, when gunmen wielding automatic weapons opened fire on a synagogue ...

Patriarch Kirill, the leader of Russia's Orthodox Church, said on Thursday he had gone into isolation after coming into contact with someone with the new coronavirus.

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 believes it ...

Members of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine light candles on an altar in May 2023. (Credit: The Kyiv Metropolitanate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.) Listen ROME – In a decision seen as an act of ...

In another sign of the widening fissure between the main Orthodox churches in Ukraine and Russia over the Kremlin's war against its neighbor, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) has approved a switch ...

LVIV, Ukraine (RNS) — On a recent Sunday, Ukrainian Orthodox Abbott Job Olshansky faced 50 stoic parishioners and presented his case for why the community should switch to the Gregorian liturgical ...

EKLUTNA, Alaska (AP) — The Russian Orthodox church was established in Alaska on Kodiak Island in 1794 and missionaries spread the faith, baptizing an estimated 18,000 Alaska Natives. EKLUTNA, Alaska ...