The political role of Russia’s most powerful religious institution is facing renewed scrutiny.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill (L) on Red Square in Moscow, Russia, on Nov. 4, ...

A second vote on the bill is necessary before being presented to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for final approval as a law. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) is part of the greater Eastern Orthodox ...

Patriarch Filaret of Kyiv, an Orthodox Church official who helped create a denomination free from Russian Orthodox Church ...

The Patriarchate’s support for the military has intensified, and its outreach has expanded to America’s religious right. But ...

The video being shared was posted on YouTube around 10 years ago and is reportedly of a church being burned in Russia. Pro-Russian social media accounts were sharing a video of a burning church ...

As President Donald Trump's administration works toward a diplomatic end to the war in Ukraine, the leaders of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) are warning that Vladimir Putin's Russia believes it ...

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church said Friday its former head, Patriarch Filaret, who was excommunicated by Moscow for breaking ...

EKLUTNA, Alaska — The Russian Orthodox church on the outskirts of Alaska’s biggest city is packed with treasures for the Christian faithful: religious icons gifted by Romanov czars, panels of oil ...

LVIV, Ukraine (RNS) — On a recent Sunday, Ukrainian Orthodox Abbott Job Olshansky faced 50 stoic parishioners and presented his case for why the community should switch to the Gregorian liturgical ...

EKLUTNA, Alaska — The Russian Orthodox church on the outskirts of Alaska’s biggest city is packed with treasures for the Christian faithful: religious icons gifted by Romanov czars, panels of oil ...