he is a human being," the monastery's acting head Archimandrite Theophan told AFP in a rare interview. "But he remains a patriarch." Unless the Church distances itself further from Moscow in the ...

The Abbess of Kuremäe Convent Filareta Kalatšova sent an open letter to members of the Riigikogu, claiming that if the ...

Across Russian-occupied Ukraine, Kremlin troops have shuttered places of worship since the first invasion began in 2014.

The educational conferences which have marked the end of the Christmas season in Moscow since the end of the Soviet Union are the primary ideological review of the new Orthodox Russia. Kirill ...

Graffiti sprayed on the monastery walls included the words “Migron,” and “Jesus is a monkey.” In a statement released later in the day and signed, among others, by the Latin Patriarch for ...

The Ministry of the Interior hopes the almost year-long saga with the Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate ...

The patriarch of Russia's Orthodox Church ... of St. George the Victorious with veterans of the Ukraine conflict, at Moscow's Poklonnaya Hill war memorial complex. Ukraine, which has had its ...

he is a human being," the monastery's acting head Archimandrite Theophan told AFP in a rare interview. "But he remains a patriarch." Unless the Church distances itself further from Moscow in the ...