(RNS) — Lawmakers in Estonia’s Parliament are debating a draft bill that would effectively require the Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, the Russian Orthodox Church’s presence in ...

As lead pastor of Good News Church in Tacoma, Moscow-born Vasiliy Stupin appreciates the reconciling power of the Gospel ...

A Republican congressman from South Carolina is facing backlash from his colleagues and some Orthodox Christian leaders after ...

A 2024 survey by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology found that 56% of Orthodox Ukrainians identified with the ...

Russia paid for Moldovan Orthodox priests to make Moscow pilgrimages and gave them debit cards loaded with hundreds of dollars on their return home. In exchange, priests created Telegram channels to ...

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The Russian Orthodox Church is supposed to bring people closer to God, not to Russian President Vladimir Putin. And yet, that seems to be just what the ROC is doing under Patriarch Kirill. The leader ...

Swedish intelligence services believe that one of the country's Russian Orthodox churches could be a base for spying. Almost everything about the "onion-domed" church beside Västerås Airport, about an ...

Pope Leo XIV will meet with Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk, head of external relations for the Russian Orthodox Church, on July 26, the Italian news agency ANSA reported. The meeting will be Pope ...

The split is one of the most important in Orthodox Christianity in centuries. Moscow -- Ukraine has taken a major step towards creating its own independent Orthodox church, separating it from Russia’s ...