The Vatican confirmed that Pope Leo received Metropolitan Anthony, the senior Russian Orthodox Church cleric who chairs its ...

Pope Leo discussed the war in Ukraine on Saturday with Metropolitan Anthony, a senior cleric in the Russian Orthodox Church, ...

Pope Leo XIV held a first meeting on Saturday with a senior Russian Orthodox cleric at the Vatican since becoming the head of ...

Since becoming pope in May, Leo has repeatedly appealed for peace in global conflicts and told Zelenskyy this month that the ...

Russian Orthodox Church. Latest; Search. Search. Clear this text input. On Ukraine’s Independence Day, Zelensky Celebrates Push Into Russia. Although the cross-border offensive carries risks, it ...

About 25 miles (40 km) from a slowly advancing Russian frontline, a community of Ukrainian Catholics is tending to people ...

BY SHALVA DZIDZIGURI -- In June, Russia abstained from participation in the gathering estimated to be the first meeting of fellow orthodox church leaders since 787 AD.

Led by Patriarch Kirill, the Russian Orthodox Church is one of the most tangible cultural bonds between Russia and Ukraine. To Vladimir Putin, Orthodox Christianity is a tool for asserting Moscow ...

Hundreds of electors representing the Russian Orthodox Church's 165 million adherents are in Moscow to pick that resurgent institution's new leader. There was plenty of jockeying ahead of the ...

Recent remarks by senior Russian clergy reinforce a sense that Kirill, the new patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, intends to intensify his church's politically fraught mission at home and ...

Since Russia's invasion began, more than 100 religious leaders and activists have faced persecution for opposing the war.

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, has sanctified Moscow’s Ukraine invasion, which he has described as a “holy war.” But Moscow had a dialogue with the late Pope Francis, ...