Russia continues to commit crimes against religious freedom during its war against Ukraine, including the killing of ...

Since the start of his "special military operation" in February 2022, Putin has turned to religion and closed ranks with the ...

More than a dozen people have been killed after a Russian glide bomb hit a pedestrian street in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, local officials have reported. At such a critical moment in US ...

The governing synod of the Russian Orthodox Church’s demoted Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev to parish work following claims of ...

Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Putin had asked Patriarch Kirill to consecrate the crosses and icons ...

Patriarch Kirill, an enthusiastic backer of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, blessed icons and crosses that were to be engraved with the president’s initials and sent to servicemen in the 34-month-old ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent special Christmas gifts to commanders deployed in Ukraine, intended to salute their bravery and boost their morale. On Orthodox Christmas Day, Putin met with ...

The most powerful earthquake in a 200-km radius in the last 5 years has hit Tibet in China. The devastating earthquake struck ...

Ukraine said on Tuesday its forces were ‘commencing new offensive actions’ in Russia’s western Kursk region, in its first substantive remarks two days after Russian reports of a renewed Ukrainian ...

After attending a midnight Orthodox Christmas service in Moscow on Vladimir Putin asked Patriarch Kirill to bless a ...

Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on January 7, following the Julian calendar. This highlights historical resistance to ...

Published January 7, 2025 last updated January 7, 2025 A Ukrainian military unit says it is still fighting for a strategic town in eastern Ukraine after Russia claimed victory there. Meanwhile, Moscow ...