Somehow the Lithuanian language survived; today it is thriving. Yet Russia’s presence is palpable, and with the invasion of ...

The Russian Orthodox Church is by far the biggest of the churches in the Eastern Orthodox communion, which split with Western Christianity in the Great Schism of 1054. According to the Kyiv ...

Some of the 6.5 million Ukrainians who have fled abroad due to the war are being influenced by the Russian Orthodox Church. Russian priests are now acting not only as spiritual leaders but also as ...

He was raised a Protestant and once worked as a roofer, but now serves as a priest in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) in Georgetown, Texas, an offshoot of the mother church in ...

The Vatican has a deep history of conflict mediation, with varying degrees of success. An effort by the pope to end the war in Ukraine would face long odds.

KOTTAYAM: In a clear indication that peace remains elusive among the warring Jacobite and Orthodox factions of the Malankara Church, the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church (MOSC) on Tuesday ...

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC) split from Moscow in May 2022 following Russian Patriarch Kirill's blessing for the war in Ukraine, which began in February that same ...

After the outbreak of World War II in 1939, the monastery changed its jurisdiction from the Orthodox Church in Poland to the Russian Orthodox Church. In the first days of the Great Patriotic War ...

These new measures follow the adoption of the Law “On the Protection of the Constitutional Order in the Field of Activities of Religious Organisations”, which prohibits the work of the Russian ...