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.

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

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 ...

The Church and the Kremlin. Christianity Today March 2, 1962 issue ... fear these disparities will now be moderated even more through the World Council’s admission of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Reuters. FILE PHOTO: People attend early morning Ukrainian Orthodox Church services, as Russia’s attack on Ukraine continues, at St Volodymyr's Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine, December 4, 2022.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has documented the subversive activities carried out by the parish priest of a church in the Kalynivka district, in the Vinnytsia Diocese of the Ukrainian ...

Kremlin says Vatican shouldn’t host peace talks due to religious ... The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, left, and Pope Francis meet at the Jose Marti airport in ...

Russia on Tuesday condemned a move by Ukraine to ban a Moscow-linked branch of the Orthodox Church, describing it as an attack on Christianity and a blow to freedom of religion.

Reviving antisemitic trope, Putin says Jews are tearing apart Russian Orthodox Church Comments made during press conference echo Soviet-era antisemitism under Stalin, when the Kremlin persecuted ...

Across Russian-occupied Ukraine, Kremlin troops have shuttered places of worship since the first invasion began in 2014. Religious persecution only increased after the full-scale invasion in ...

“This is not a church in the traditional sense – it is part of the Kremlin’s machinery,” Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský told the Czech News Agency.