Russian courts intensified civil bans on Baptist churches for meeting without state permission in the past year, according to ...

A former leading figure in the Russian Orthodox Church breaks his silence after an ex-aide levels allegations against him.

A new dispute underscored the split in Moldova's Orthodox faith on Wednesday as the ex-Soviet state's largest church rejected any notion that it was a "Russian church" while a rival church linked to ...

The Ukrainian parliament passed a preliminary vote on Thursday for a bill that could ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which has close ties to the Russian Orthodox Church, from operating within ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a keynote address on Nov. 28 at the Plenary Session of the World Russian Peoples’ Concilium, a faith-based organization led by the head of Russia's Orthodox ...

Timur Ivanov, who has long been in charge of major military construction projects and known for leading a lavish lifestyle, was held Tuesday on charges of “large scale” corruption. By Neil MacFarquhar ...

Though not even two decades have passed since the Soviet state collapsed in 1991, the Orthodox Russians who came to France to flee communism say they’re starting to view Moscow with mistrust again.

FILE In this file photo taken on Saturday, July 28, 2018, Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill, right, Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, and Eastern Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria and ...

“But even on this calendrical rarity, churches will not celebrate Christ’s resurrection together.” A leading official from the world’s second-biggest church, the Russian Orthodox Church, has called on ...

The split is one of the most important in Orthodox Christianity in centuries. Moscow -- Ukraine has taken a major step towards creating its own independent Orthodox church, separating it from Russia’s ...