In 1918 Vladimir Lenin stripped the church of its legal status and right to own property; the number of working churches had tumbled from 50,000 before the revolution to a couple of hundred by 1939.

Just about everything about the onion-domed Russian Orthodox church near the otherwise unassuming Swedish city of Vasteras ...

Violent clashes broke out on June 17 outside the Holy Spirit Cathedral in Chernivtsi, a city in southwestern Ukraine, as hundreds of people attempted to force their way into the church following a ...

A senior Ukrainian Orthodox Church official recently warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin thinks the Kremlin is in a 'holy war' with the West.

Vasyl Povorozniuk, metropolitan of the Luhansk Diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), has been accused of cooperating with Russian occupation authorities in ...

More than 1,500 local churches, like the one in Blystavytsya, have switched their allegiance to the Ukrainian national church. The figure amounts to around 13 percent of the churches in parts of ...

“The persecution being carried out against Mr. Samvel Karapetyan is yet another manifestation of the Prime Minister’s anti-Church actions, aimed at depriving the Armenian Church of the support of its ...

The Kremlin is a fortified complex in the center of Moscow, made up of more than 15 buildings, ... and churches. After waiting in line for less than 10 minutes, I had my ticket.

The Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (ROC MP) has combined several Kremlin ideological narratives in an attempt to form a broader nationalist ideology around the war against ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to hand over the historic 15th-century Trinity icon from a museum to the Russian Orthodox Church because of its importance to believers, the Kremlin's ...

The absence of any single, dominant church in Ukraine prevented state capture in the way that Putin, as tsars previously, captured the Russian Orthodox Church.

Only the Kremlin’s historical buildings, churches and museums are accessible. Putin’s frequent commutes to work used to cause major traffic flare-ups.