Pope Leo XIV met with a top Russian Orthodox cleric, the first such visit from Moscow since the papal election, and one that ...

The Russian Orthodox Church issued a statement after the meeting, which said: “The discussion touched on numerous issues, including the state of ...

Pope Leo discussed the war in Ukraine on Saturday with Metropolitan Anthony, a senior cleric in the Russian Orthodox Church, ...

NPR's Michel Martin talks to attorney Lena Zezulin about growing calls for Russian Orthodox Church outposts abroad to break from the Moscow-based church and its support of the war in Ukraine.

The Vatican confirmed that Pope Leo received Metropolitan Anthony, the senior Russian Orthodox Church cleric who chairs its ...

The discussion covered military conflicts, including those in Ukraine and the Middle East. Antony also conveyed ...

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.

The Russian church, estimated to have over 150 million adherents, is by far the largest of the world’s Orthodox communities and for most of its centuries-long history has been closely tied to ...

LVIV, Ukraine (RNS) — For centuries, Orthodox Ukrainians saw the traditional Julian calendar as one of the anchors of their church’s identity. Now many are switching to the Gregorian calendar.

The Russian Orthodox Church is allied with President Putin. But in New York, some of its members are quietly anguished. By Liam Stack Last week, more than a dozen religious and political leaders ...

Recent remarks by senior Russian clergy reinforce a sense that Kirill, the new patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, intends to intensify his church's politically fraught mission at home and ...

Including Russian, the four Orthodox Churches abstained then from participation in the gathering estimated to be the first meeting of fellow Church leaders since 787 AD following five decades in ...