Russian priest arrested during Sunday service for 2014 photo with Ukrainian flag - Nikolai Savchenko said police came to his ...

A Russian Orthodox priest has been sentenced to 14 days in custody over a 2014 photo in which he was shown with a Ukrainian flag, according to the cleric's own account and Russian media reports.

But in March 2023, the charismatic Orthodox priest in his forties saw his career come to an abrupt halt. His public criticism of the Moscow Patriarchate’s support for the Kremlin’s invasion of ...

Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the Vatican's ambassador to the U.S. known as the Apostolic Nuncio, took part in the Mass, ...

Parish priest Bong Sarabia said that they were surprised with the developments, prompting parishioners to convene and call for a thanksgiving mass. “This is a thanksgiving mass as it is a big ...

“At that time I was Parish Priest in Hannahstown and I thought if Eugene and Martin are auditioning for it, I don’t think I have much chance but I will throw my hat in to the ring anyway and ...

A former priest with a child molestation conviction who was stripped of his American citizenship has been sentenced to a year in prison, authorities said Thursday. Antonio Velez-Lopez, a 69-year ...

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Friday it had foiled an attempt by Ukraine’s military intelligence service to assasinate Tikhon Shevkunov, a senior priest in ...

But Orthodox priests Denis Popovich, 27, and Nikita Ivankovich, 28, were nabbed by Putin’s FSB ­security service. They appeared to confess in an FSB video, in which Popovich said ...

Let’s go even one step further. A kohein (a descendant of Aaron, a Jewish “priest”) is not allowed to render himself spiritually unclean by attending a funeral except for one of his seven close ...