Russia and Turkey’s international religious influence relies on a specific national narrative – one that is challenged by the ...

Pope Francis and Kirill, patriarch of Moscow and all Russia, signed a Joint Declaration in Havana in 2016, which aimed to ...

The Kremlin has blasted the United States’ historic mineral rights deal with Ukraine, sarcastically praising the US President ...

Sensing that President Donald Trump much prefers tough rhetoric to tough action, Russian President Vladimir Putin is testing ...

Saturday’s majestic open-air funeral for Pope Francis is now followed by election of the next pope by the College of ...

The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI in February 2013 sent shockwaves through the global community, breaking an eight-century ...

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The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has formally charged 14 high-ranking metropolitans and archbishops of the Russian Orthodox Church for their involvement in the illegal seizure of Ukrainian ...

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The Argentinian pontiff was a powerful progressive voice in world politics, the first Jesuit priest to be spiritual leader of ...

Spanish and Russian — which could help him thaw relations between the Catholic and Russian Orthodox Churches after the deep chill of the war in Ukraine. Mr. Erdo is not a charismatic speaker, but ...

a repentance for past mistakes – something I wish Orthodox churches, especially the Russian Church, would emulate. Under Pope Francis, the Catholic Church underwent a kind of catharsis, a repetance ...