Estonian legislators confirmed their resolve to detach the Orthodox Church in Estonia from its mother church, the Moscow ...

The first female Orthodox saint in North America was an Indigenous woman who spent her entire life with her Yup'ik family and neighbors in a village in southwest Alaska. Olga ...

A beach in the Australian state of South Australia has been closed due to a mysterious foam. Surfers have reported cold and ...

Despite intensive US efforts to broker a ceasefire and staggering battlefield casualties, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine continues unabated. Earlier this week, a Russian drone and missile ...

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

The conflict brought relations between the Vatican and the Russian Orthodox Church to a new low in 2022 when Francis said its Patriarch Kirill, who supported the conflict, should not act like ...

He served as a member of the Russian Orthodox Church’s highest governing body, the Holy Synod, in 2022, and has not objected to its leadership’s position regarding the war in Ukraine.

Russia's invasion, which began in February 2022, has also been a source of religious controversy within the Eastern Orthodox Church and has driven a split among believers in both Russia and Ukraine.

A battle has erupted in Moldova over its links to the Russian Orthodox Church, seen by many as a tool of Moscow’s influence abroad. Listen to this article · 8:06 min Learn more.

To help American Catholics understand the situation in Ukraine, consider Ireland. Both were dominated by imperial neighbors, who suppressed their language, religion and culture, Peter Daly writes.

The Christian Orthodox Church in Ireland has officially ordained its first Metropolitan (head of a large city or diocese). The enthronement ceremony also marks the reopening of the Greek Orthodox ...

The Russian Orthodox Church was established in Alaska on Kodiak Island in 1794 and missionaries spread the faith, baptizing an estimated 18,000 Alaska Natives. Today, up to 50,000 Alaskans ...