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

A Russian court has sentenced blogger and singer Eduard Sharlot to five and a half years in a penal colony for promoting Nazism and insulting religious beliefs. The court in the Samara Region also ...

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.

PATRIARCH Kirill of Moscow has once again condemned Western countries ... ready to recognise our right to originality and independence,” Kirill told the World Russian People’s Council (WRPC). “Thank ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

A Russian court on Friday sentenced a singer who burned his passport in protest at Moscow's Ukraine offensive to five and a half years in prison.

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 Nations, from ...