Thus the Russian Orthodox Church was resurrected from beneath the Communist rubble and deployed to rally Russian support for the death struggle with the Third Reich. But having brought Russian ...

War often has a chilling effect on freedom. Sometimes this is necessary. Being at war necessitates restrictions that would be ...

The story of the Rev. Hilarion Alfeyev captures how a once robust effort to bring Russian Orthodox Christianity and the ...

Independence from Russian Orthodoxy could have serious geopolitical implications. The creation of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) on December 15, at a Unification Council in Kyiv attended by ...

MOSCOW, October 15. /TASS/. The Russian Orthodox Church has done its utmost to avoid the rupture of relations with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople but it was the only right decision ...