Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a keynote address on Nov. 28 at the Plenary Session of the World Russian Peoples’ Concilium, a faith-based organization led by the head of Russia's Orthodox ...

The patriarch of Russian Orthodox Church is a vocal backer of Moscow’s war against Ukraine. Systema, RFE/RL’s Russian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON — Patriarch Kirill, leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, has been a loyal ally of President Vladimir Putin for years.

Addis Ababa, June 3, 2026 - President Taye Atske Selassie today received Metropolitan Anthony Sevryuk, Chairman of the ...

Last weekend, at a special midnight service in a packed church in Udine, in northeast Italy, a priest led his flock of Ukrainian, Russian and Eastern European immigrants through their usual Orthodox ...

A new law in Ukraine banning the activities of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) is meant to prevent the militarization of religion in the country, according to the head of the Ukrainian Greek ...

When Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus’ was head of the Russian Orthodox Church’s external relations department, he would occasionally come to Washington, where the Librarian of Congress, James ...

Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, has assigned Metropolitan Hilarion — recently suspected of drug ...

The damaged entrance of the Orthodox Christian monastery in Sviatohirsk, in eastern Ukraine, in April.yasuyoshi chiba/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images The Ukrainian arm of the Russian Orthodox Church ...

The Russian Orthodox Church is allied with President Putin. But in New York, some of its members are quietly anguished. By Liam Stack Last week, more than a dozen religious and political leaders sat ...