Millions of people worldwide celebrated Orthodox Christmas nearly two weeks after much of the world marked the holiday.

Hello, this is Asami Terajima reporting from Kyiv on day 1,414 of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Today's top story: ...

Archpriest Heorhii Horbenko, the rector of the Church of the Intercession in the village of Orlove in Kherson Oblast, has been killed in a Russian drone attack.

Lawmakers from several opposition parties – Holos (Voice), European Solidarity, and Batkivshchyna – blocked Ukraine's parliament rostrum on July 23 following the governing party's decision to not ...

A Russian official pointed to Islamic "sleeper cells" after gunmen carried out coordinated attacks on synagogues and churches in two cities in the southern region of Dagestan, killing at least 20 ...

In a Facebook post on Jan. 6, the minister wrote that the very existence of a school promoting the “Russian world” in the ...

When Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus’ was head of the Russian Orthodox Church’s external relations department, he would occasionally come to Washington, where the Librarian of Congress, James ...

EKLUTNA, Alaska — The Russian Orthodox church on the outskirts of Alaska’s biggest city is packed with treasures for the Christian faithful: religious icons gifted by Romanov czars, panels of oil ...

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv-Halych, head of the worldwide Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, delivers the homily during a Mass of thanksgiving for Aid to the Church in Need at St.

LVIV, Ukraine (RNS) — On a recent Sunday, Ukrainian Orthodox Abbott Job Olshansky faced 50 stoic parishioners and presented his case for why the community should switch to the Gregorian liturgical ...

(RNS) — The Patriarch reportedly said churches 'must not add fuel to the fire' of political conflict but has been widely accused of doing just that. (RNS) — The acting general secretary of the World ...

The damaged entrance of the Orthodox Christian monastery in Sviatohirsk, in eastern Ukraine, in April. (yasuyoshi chiba/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images) The Ukrainian arm of the Russian Orthodox ...