prompting him to distribute crosses with his initials to soldiers before sending them to die on Ukrainian soil. On Orthodox Christmas, marked by Russian occupiers on Jan. 7, Russian Orthodox ...

Autocephaly debate In October 1990, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church received the status of a self-governing church within the Russian Orthodox Church. In November 1991, Filaret, who was then heading ...

Maintaining the Orthodox world’s unity is Moscow’s preferred option, Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, commenting on the possible granting of autocephaly to the Ukrainian ...