Kyiv says the church, called the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), has been spreading pro-Moscow propaganda and housing spies. Some 265 lawmakers passed a bill banning the Russian Orthodox Church ...

A Ukrainian church in the abandoned town on Insinger in Canada (Picture: Jam Press/Freaktography) An eerie abandoned town with a dilapidated church, school, post office and several homes has been ...

Ukrainian religious organizations will soon be forbidden to work together with the Russian Orthodox Church. The ban mainly affects the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. Up ...

KYIV, Ukraine — Andriy Pavlenko, an Orthodox church abbot in eastern Ukraine, seemed to be on a selfless spiritual mission. When war came, he remained with his flock and even visited a hospital ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reminded that the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine is often controlled by Russian intelligence and that it has no right to influence believers and parishes of the ...

Ukraine's Interior Ministry on Friday placed the head of Russia's Orthodox Church, a backer of the Kremlin's 21-month-old war against Kyiv, on a wanted list after security services accused him of ...

A branch of Ukraine’s Orthodox church has announced that it will allow its churches to celebrate Christmas on December 25, rather than January 7, as is traditional in Orthodox congregations.

Metropolitan Epiphany I, head of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, leads a Christmas Eve service at the St. Michael's Golden-Domed Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, December 24, 2023.

Ukraine's punitive actions against a branch of the Orthodox church linked to Russia are part of a drive to achieve "spiritual independence," President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday.

LYPIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — This Orthodox Easter season, an extraordinary new church is bringing spiritual comfort to war-weary residents of the Ukrainian village of Lypivka. Two years ago, it also ...

Ukrainian church holds bake sale while remembering those still living in Ukraine war. It's been almost seven months since the war between Russia and Ukraine began.