The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has opened 180 criminal cases against priests of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the ...

The State Service for Export Control and Security has determined that the Kyiv Metropolis of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church ...

Sister Vassa Larin is an American nun who is best known for teaching about the Eastern Orthodox faith to thousands of viewers ...

The Ukrainian government has declared that a branch of the Orthodox Church has failed to sever all ties with Moscow — and ...

The State Service of Ukraine on Ethnic Policy and Freedom of Conscience filed a lawsuit to terminate the activities of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate), which is recognized as ...

Lyudmila Navalnaya (from left) and Anatoly Navalny, parents of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, and Navalny’s mother-in-law, Alla Abrosimova, visit the grave of the late Russian opposition ...

A priest who oversaw a memorial for late Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has been suspended for three years by the head of the country's Orthodox Church. Dmitry Safronov held a memorial ...

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Following the Angelus, his weekly prayer service at the Vatican, on Sunday (Aug. 25), Pope Francis criticized Ukraine’s decision to ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which has ...

After talks with United States President Donald Trump in Anchorage, Vladimir Putin met with Archbishop Alexei of Sitka and Alaska. The Russian president told the clergyman that before heading to ...

The Ukrainian government agency responsible for ethnic affairs has launched legal action to have the country's largest ...

EKLUTNA, Alaska — The Russian Orthodox church on the outskirts of Alaska’s biggest city is packed with treasures for the Christian faithful: religious icons gifted by Romanov czars, panels of oil ...