The regime of Vladimir Putin is using the Russian Orthodox Church in efforts to repress other faiths not only in Ukraine and ...

The alleged pipeline is a sign that the Russian state is leveraging its national church’s expansion into Africa.

Three and a half years into Russia's full-scale invasion, the Ukrainian branch of the Russian Orthodox Church is finally facing its judgment day. Under a law passed in 2024, the branch — the Ukrainian ...

What may be the most significant expansion in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church is serving as a powerful new tool for the Kremlin.

(RNS) — The presence of a Russian Orthodox Church in Pyongyang is meant to send a powerful message about Russia’s sphere of influence. (RNS) — Earlier this month, Vladimir Putin visited North Korea in ...

Vladimir Putin does not have, like China and Western countries, billions of dollars to build roads, bridges, power plants, mining mines in Africa and ensure his economic influence. Nor does he have ...

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian Orthodox leaders on Saturday approved the creation of a unified church independent of the Moscow Patriarchate and elected a leader to head that new church — a move that ...

An apparent coordinated attack Sunday in southern Russia has left at least nine people dead, including seven law enforcement officers, when gunmen wielding automatic weapons opened fire on a synagogue ...

Though not even two decades have passed since the Soviet state collapsed in 1991, the Orthodox Russians who came to France to flee communism say they’re starting to view Moscow with mistrust again.

Patriarch Alexy II, who died Friday at age 79 of a long-standing heart ailment, le d the great revival of the Russian Orthodox Church, transforming it from a subservient and entirely dependent tool of ...