This is the recently built Russian Orthodox Church on the outskirts of the Swedish town of Västerås — to its backers, an innocent place of worship; but to an increasingly vocal group of critics, a ...

Norran English has previously reported on the Orthodox church in Boliden and its ties to the Moscow Patriarchate. Patrik Oksanen, a journalist, security policy expert, and associate of the Frivärld ...

The head of the Synodal Department for Church Relations with Society and ... criticized the recent burning of a copy of the Quran in Sweden. "The Quran burning near the Turkish embassy in Sweden ...

A recently constructed Russian Orthodox church in Västerås, Sweden, has raised suspicions among security experts and local officials. Though some see the church as a place of worship ...

A Swedish agency for grants for faith institutions said Thursday it was cutting support to the Russian Orthodox Church, after Sweden's intelligence service warned the church was used for intelligence ...

Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, has justified Putin's decision to invade Ukraine in February 2022 on spiritual and ideological grounds. In the 10 months since the Russian ...

The church belongs to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) – which, despite the name, has traditionally been loyal to the Russian Orthodox Church, and whose current leader Patriarch Kiril has ...