(RNS) — The presence of a Russian Orthodox Church in Pyongyang is meant to send a powerful message about Russia’s sphere of influence. (RNS) — Earlier this month, Vladimir Putin visited North Korea in ...

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

Before 2022, Sister Vassa Larin was best known as an Orthodox nun who taught thousands on YouTube about saints and holy days.

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 ...

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.

A Russian court has jailed a church pastor for four years after he spoke out against the invasion of Ukraine in a sermon.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Stolen Ukrainian children were put to work in factories to produce drones and other military hardware for Russia’s armed ...

“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 ...