Estonia is aiming to split its Orthodox Church from the Moscow Patriarchate as the Kremlin uses religion as a tool for soft ...

Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill usually performs the Divine Liturgy at the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius near Moscow ...

Somehow the Lithuanian language survived; today it is thriving. Yet Russia’s presence is palpable, and with the invasion of ...

In a Moscow suburb, locals have been battling against city officials and the Russian Orthodox Church to stop construction of a new church in a city park. This construction project is part of a plan to ...

Under Putin, Christianity has been turned into a political tool to spread false narratives about the war in Ukraine ...

US President Donald Trump has repeatedly said he wants to end the deadliest European conflict since World War Two and has shown increasing frustration with Putin in recent days ...

The International Olympic Committee announced on Tuesday what had already been foreshadowed by the IIHF: The ban on Russian teams that was in place for the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics will remain in ...

In February 2024, the Swedish Agency for Support for Faith Communities cut funding to the Russian Orthodox Church in Sweden, after Sapo warned that it believed the church was being used for ...

The Swedish Agency for Support for Faith Communities said in February that it was reducing support to a Russian Orthodox church built in Vasteras in central Sweden. This was after Swedish ...

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 ...