Atesh reports extensive repression of religious groups in Crimea, highlighting the destruction of places of worship and the ...

A priest-blogger of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) from the Ternopil Region, Oleksii Filiuk, said that the full-scale ...

Russian Patriarch Kirill on August 23 enforced the decision to defrock Orthodox priest Andrei Kudrin over his prayers for reconciliation between Russians and Ukrainians. Orthodox priests across Russia ...

An imprisoned Ukrainian Orthodox Church priest has been sent 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) from his parish in Russian-occupied Ukraine to a hard labor camp in Russia to serve his 14-year sentence on ...

The supposed "persecution of Christians" in Ukraine ranks among the most popular tropes of Russian disinformation. Kremlin propaganda has sought to cast the state's push to limit the influence of the ...

A joint investigation by Russian opposition student journal DOXA and open-source outlet Kidmapping has shed light on the involvement of the Kremlin-backed Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) in assimilating ...

In Kherson region, a Russian drone strike killed the rector of the Intercession Church in the village of Orlove, Archpriest ...

In February 2022, as Russian tanks rolled across the Ukrainian border, a small group of Russian Orthodox Christian clergy did something extraordinary. They published an open letter calling for peace ...

ANTALYA, Turkey — Standing in an old Orthodox church in Antalya with a Bible in one hand and a candle in the other, the Rev. Ioann Koval led one of his first services in Turkey after Russian Orthodox ...

SLAVIANSK Ukraine (Reuters) - Father Vitaly says he prays every day for the armed men who now wield power in Slaviansk, stronghold of pro-Russian separatists who have seized key buildings in a dozen ...

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church, which is famous for its long-lasting ties with Russia, has elected their new Patriarch, 52-year-old Daniil who openly supported the full-scale Russian invasion of ...