The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) has announced plans to increase the number of military chaplains deployed with Russian ...

The Western trend of gender reassignment is a “sign of apocalypses,” Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, told Russian state news agency TASS in an interview broadcast on ...

He rebuilt a national religion from the ground up, developing Russian Orthodoxy as a quasi-national religion with deep nationalistic sentiment. With the Russian Orthodox Church’s history of ...

However local emergency services in some regions cancelled events, saying it was too hazardous for worshippers to cut bathing holes in icy ponds and riversView on euronews ...

This is where Russian Orthodoxy began, and it cannot be abandoned due to circumstances beyond the control of this historical and spiritual connection." In Kirill's view, Ukrainians and Russians ...