In Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine, a once diverse and free religious ecosystem is being filtered into one faith: the cult of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Prior to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine ...

Ukraine has requested the extradition of the State Hermitage Museum’s Alexander Butyagin, who seized artefacts including ancient Greek coins ...

The Russian Orthodox Church’s exarchate in Africa is involved in a scheme recruiting Kenyan citizens to fight in Ukraine, according to journalist Ksenia Luchenko, who covers the Russian Orthodox ...

Easter is the most important celebration of the Orthodox Church calendar, "a feast of feasts and a celebration of celebrations." On this day, the Church commemorates the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, ...

(RNS) — The alleged pipeline is a sign that the Russian state is leveraging its national church’s expansion into Africa. NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — At a memorial ceremony in central Kenya in early ...

Deep in South Africa’s wine country near the town of Robertson, past rows of tin shacks and up a gravel road where barefoot children play, sits a little piece of Russia. The apricot-hued building with ...

A trio of House Republicans welcomed an Orthodox Christian delegation that accused Ukraine of religious persecution to Capitol Hill this week. Reps. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) Eli Crane (R-Ariz.) and ...

The Rev. Kathryn Adams of Canfield, right, poses with her daughter, Sarah Emerick-Craig, outside Christ the Savior Holy Spirit Orthodox Church in Norwood, where Sarah attends. After serving as an ...

CORRECTION: The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Porfirije, met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Kirill in Moscow in April. An earlier version of this story included ...

CHISINAU, Nov 12 (Reuters) - A new dispute underscored the split in Moldova's Orthodox faith on Wednesday as the ex-Soviet state's largest church rejected any notion that it was a "Russian church" ...