A Ukrainian delegation to the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington will make the case that Russia threatens the religious ...

Dozens of Orthodox faithful attended today the celebration of a ceremony of consecration and raising of the cross in the bell tower under construction of the Orthodox temple of the Holy Righteous ...

Vladimir Putin congratulated Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia on the 16th anniversary of his enthronement.

A number of Orthodox priests who are against Russia's invasion of Ukraine have sought refuge in Germany, where they face many challenges.

A church that supports the ideology of the "Russian world" has no place in an independent state. "The Moscow Patriarchate is ...

Explore religious figures shaping global events in 2025. From influential leaders to rising voices, this four-part series ...

The wave of attacks by Vladimir Putin - which led to power cuts in multiple regions - came soon after Donald Trump announced ...

SOFIA - Nikolai Balashov, a senior Russian Orthodox priest sanctioned by Ukraine and reportedly a former KGB colonel general, was granted entry into Bulgaria following the Patriarch’s invitation and ...

US President Donald Trump has meanwhile claimed he was "having very serious discussions" the war in an attempt to end it.

MOSCOW, February 4. /TASS/. The authorities in the Baltic countries are orchestrating a campaign of pressure against Orthodox parishes, taking cues from Ukraine, according to Gennady Askaldovich, the ...

According to Nikolay Azarov, the conditions for holding elections should be a subject of talks between the Russian side and the United States ...

The Church publishes the Monitor because ... Fred Weir has been the Monitor's Moscow correspondent, covering Russia and the former Soviet Union, since 1998. He's traveled over much of that vast ...