Russian Orthodox Church

For the first time in history, the Lords of the Ecumenical Patriarchate traveled to Athens to participate in the 4th International Conference of Lords...

By Brendan Cole Newsweek (28.03.2024) - The Russian Orthodox Church has approved a document that deems President Vladimir Putin's full-scale invasion of Ukraine a "Holy War." The declaration...

By Bendan Cole for Newsweek 90  Far from the front line of the war in Ukraine, battle lines of a different kind were drawn when residents...

The Moscow Patriarchate of the Orthodox Church, defines its territory of spiritual responsibility in the borders of the Soviet Union—except for the old churches of Armenia and Georgia. Still dozens of theologians and scholars of religion elaborated on the complicated relationship within the church community of the Holy Rus’

On 24 November, the website of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine published the text of draft law No. 8221 banning the activities of the Russian Orthodox Church represented on the territory of Ukraine by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC).

Russia’s war in Ukraine and the Holy See’s strained relations with China are the backdrop to Pope Francis’ visit this week to the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan.