Known for his close ties to the Russian president, Patriarch Kirill has been internationally criticized for providing a ...

Aug. 24, President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a law which prohibits religious organizations tied to the Russian state.

It also underscored that the UOC has historically been affiliated with the Moscow Patriarchate, as the Russian Orthodox Church is legally known, but it declared its full independence from Moscow ...

Critics say Kyiv is attacking religious freedom in its efforts to break the Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s ties with Moscow.

For hundreds of years, the territory of modern Ukraine was divided between various European powers—primarily the Russian and ...

Earlier this month, on the same day that Ukrainian lawmakers effectively moved to ban an entire branch of the Russian Orthodox Church, the leader of Bulgaria's Orthodox Church publicly weighed in ...

Good news in difficult times is a particularly valuable commodity. Well, here you go: Ukrainian legislators have banned the activity of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) in Ukraine. However, they did ...

Patriarch Kirill has weighed in on the Paris Olympics, accusing it of celebrating spiritual decline The head of the Russian ...

ROME – Though without naming it specifically, Pope Francis appeared on Sunday to criticize a new law in Ukraine restricting the activities of the Russian Orthodox Church, a measure which has ...

In Vladimir Putin’s Russia, writing about certain subjects — the war in Ukraine, the Russian Orthodox Church or LGBTQ+ life — ...

"Please, let no Christian church be abolished directly or indirectly: the churches are not to be touched," Pope Francis said about a Ukrainian law banning the Russian Orthodox Church, which ...

In Vladimir Putin’s Russia, writing about the war in Ukraine, the church or LGBTQ+ life could land you in jail. A new ...