This is obviously a reference to the Moscow-dependent Russian Orthodox Church. It should be remembered that the ... Communist China, Cuba, and Venezuela (the first four appear on the list of the 50 ...

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela is set to have its first female saint following approval from Pope Francis. On Monday, he ...

March 24 (Reuters) - 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 ...

The Russian Orthodox Church strongly backs the war in Ukraine and has punished dozens of priests who have defied its official line, for example by reading out prayers for peace instead of victory.

And they’ve all found a new home in the Russian Orthodox Church. Sarah Riccardi-Swartz is an assistant professor of religion and anthropology at Northeastern University. (Photo via Northeastern ...

A historic Russian Orthodox church is keeping the faith in the family. After over 54 years as rector, the Very Rev. Mitred Archpriest John D. Sorochka of St. John the Baptist Russian Orthodox ...

The Russian Orthodox Church in Lithuania deliberately hides its affiliation to the Moscow Patriarchate, an Orthodox cleric has claimed. Fr Gintaras Sungaila, a priest of the Exarchate of the ...

Reports of the Metropolitan’s possible meeting with Mr Ivankovich and Mr Popovich, both in their twenties, came as another Russian Orthodox priest now serving with the Ecumenical Patriarchate told a ...

A Russian Orthodox priest has been arrested in St. Petersburg over ... Savchenko says he was detained directly at his church. He was charged with displaying banned symbols after the court ruled that ...

THE senior Russian Orthodox bishop who allegedly the target of a murder plot by two ethnic Ukrainian laymen has asked to meet the men who currently await trial A FORMER Russian Orthodox priest, now ...

by the Russian Orthodox Church's primate, Patriarch Kirill, who has lauded Russia's war aims in sermons and speeches in the church's name, denouncing the "forces of evil, conflict and division ...