The head of the Russian Orthodox Church had some chilling comments ... And, according to a translation in the New York Times, the bishop made an apparent reference to the ongoing Ukraine war ...

THE senior Russian Orthodox bishop who allegedly the target of a murder plot by two ethnic Ukrainian laymen has asked to meet ...

In an interview for Acton’s Religion & Liberty quarterly, the Russian Orthodox bishop in charge of external affairs for the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) of Volokolamsk, warned ...

One morning in October of 2023, Miami police were called to remove a “squatter” who had, or so the ecclesiastical complainants claimed, taken up illegal residence in one of South Florida’s oldest ...

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A FORMER Russian Orthodox priest, now ministering as an Anglican, has urged Western church support for a close friend ...

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow ... After Lipke's episcopal consecration, Orthodox Bishop Nikodim (Chibisov), metropolitan of Novosibirsk and Berdsk, invited him to visit.

The pair were said to have been recruited by Ukraine to kill Bishop Tikhon Shev­kunov ... Pro-war Tikhon, the senior Russian Orthodox church figure in occupied Crimea, has likened Putin to ...

Two priests have been accused of plotting to assassinate a Russian bishop known to be Vladimir Putin ’s personal Orthodox confessor. The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) held clerics Denis ...

The country has been considered Orthodox since 988, when the bishops of Constantinople baptized this land, which was then ruled by the Kievan Rus. The Russian Orthodox Church originates from Kyiv.

Russia's FSB security service said on Friday it had arrested two church figures suspected of plotting to kill a priest close to President Vladimir Putin on the orders of a Ukrainian spy agency.