Metropolitan Hilarion, once seen as Patriarch Kirill's successor, was dismissed by the Moscow Patriarchate amid allegations, ...

The patriarch has tried to distance himself recently from the country’s political leaders, stressing his superiority in the relationship between Russia’s political and clerical power.

Russian parliament will debate a law aimed at ending spiritual gatherings in buildings that are not officially recognized ...

In the occupied territories, the Russian Orthodox Church took over temples, church buildings, and lands in the dioceses of ...

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill is sending letters in support of new mothers in Russia as part of a new project designed to encourage pregnant women to keep their babies, according to a ...

The Russian Orthodox Church is an outspoken exception. Patriarch Kirill, who leads the church, has described the conflict as a “holy war” and said that any young man who died in action would ...

A Russian court has sentenced blogger Eduard Sharlot to five years and six months behind bars for rehabilitation of Nazism ...

Russia has jailed dozens of Ukrainian faith leaders in occupied areas, according to Ukrainian prosecutors. After threatening ...

Paraguay is very grateful to Russian officers contribution during the Chaco war. Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill on Wednesday served mass at Russia’s Bellingshausen Antarctic station on ...

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó has said he prevented Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and Vasily Nebenzia, Russian Permanent Representative to the United ...

The documentary series Time Chose Us on the Belarus 1 TV channel examined why Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk Filaret, ...