The Russian Orthodox Church has handed down yet another initiative to its dioceses. Called the “Patriarchal Humanitarian ...

The patriarch of Russian Orthodox Church is a vocal backer of Moscow’s war against Ukraine. Systema, RFE/RL’s Russian ...

Konstantin Malofeev, the founder of the Tsargrad television channel, presented a report on scenarios for Russia’s future ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: As he approaches this Orthodox church in Moldova, Archbishop Marchel begins his mass. As he preaches, dozens of worshippers ...

An apparent coordinated attack Sunday in southern Russia has left at least nine people dead, including seven law enforcement officers, when gunmen wielding automatic weapons opened fire on a synagogue ...

India, June 7 -- Without Church's authority, vigilante actions may appear arbitrary; with it, they can beportrayed as the ...

Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, has assigned Metropolitan Hilarion — recently suspected of drug ...

Before 2022, Sister Vassa Larin was best known as an Orthodox nun who taught thousands on YouTube about saints and holy days. She became one of the most prominent female intellectuals in Orthodoxy — ...

Gunmen opened fire on two synagogues, two Orthodox churches and a police post in Russia's North Caucasus region of Dagestan on Sunday. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a ...

Earlier this month, on the same day that Ukrainian lawmakers effectively moved to ban an entire branch of the Russian Orthodox Church, the leader of Bulgaria's Orthodox Church publicly weighed in with ...

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.