Pope Leo XIV met with a top Russian Orthodox cleric, the first such visit from Moscow since the papal election, and one that comes amid strained relations with Rome due to Russia’s ongoing war in ...

THE Russian Orthodox Church has moved to reinforce its presence among Orthodox leaders in neighbouring Belarus, with a ...

Pope Leo discussed the war in Ukraine on Saturday with Metropolitan Anthony, a senior cleric in the Russian Orthodox Church, ...

Pope Leo XIV will meet with Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk, head of external relations for the Russian Orthodox Church, ...

The Vatican confirmed that Pope Leo received Metropolitan Anthony, the senior Russian Orthodox Church cleric who chairs its ...

Moscow celebrated the Russian variant of the feast of the Baptism of Kyivan Rus', with Patriarch Kirill also commemorating the ...

Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, has justified Putin's decision to invade Ukraine in February 2022 on spiritual and ideological grounds. In the 10 months since the Russian ...

A cross and a dome of destroyed by shelling russian army of orthodox church in the recaptured by the Ukrainian army Hostomel city in Kyiv area, Ukraine, 06 April 2022 Maxym Marusenko-NurPhoto ...

Hundreds of electors representing the Russian Orthodox Church's 165 million adherents are in Moscow to pick that resurgent institution's new leader. There was plenty of jockeying ahead of the ...

Including Russian, the four Orthodox Churches abstained then from participation in the gathering estimated to be the first meeting of fellow Church leaders since 787 AD following five decades in ...

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church formally changed the main date for the festivities, departing from the Russian tradition of celebrating on Jan. 7, according to the Julian calendar.

For years the Ukrainian wing of the Russian Orthodox Church sought to portray itself as independent, while endorsing the Kremlin's narrative of spiritual unity between the two nations. That became ...