THE senior Russian Orthodox bishop who allegedly the target of a murder plot by two ethnic Ukrainian laymen has asked to meet the men who currently await trial A FORMER Russian Orthodox priest, now ...

The Russian Orthodox Church strongly backs the war in Ukraine and has punished dozens of priests who have defied its official line, for example by reading out prayers for peace instead of victory.

The Russian Orthodox Church in Lithuania deliberately hides its affiliation to the Moscow Patriarchate, an Orthodox cleric has claimed. Fr Gintaras Sungaila, a priest of the Exarchate of the ...

There are an estimated 2,000 churches in New York, with dozens designated as cathedrals. Churches and cathedrals are classic ...

Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, a professor of religion and anthropology at Northeastern University, spent a year living with a community of Russian Orthodox monks and laypeople, nestled in a small West ...

Reports of the Metropolitan’s possible meeting with Mr Ivankovich and Mr Popovich, both in their twenties, came as another Russian Orthodox priest now serving with the Ecumenical Patriarchate told a ...

Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral wasn't completed until ... religious needs of the city's growing Russian population. The church's onion domes, bright colors and detailed ornamentation are ...

by the Russian Orthodox Church's primate, Patriarch Kirill, who has lauded Russia's war aims in sermons and speeches in the church's name, denouncing the "forces of evil, conflict and division ...

The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) has been banned in Ukraine since January 2024, when the Verkhovna Rada passed a law prohibiting religious organizations linked to Russia. The law aims to limit the ...