Russia on Tuesday accused Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople of attempts to assert control over the Georgian Orthodox Church (GOC) through appointing his candidate to the vacant post of the ...

The Russian Orthodox Church on Monday moved to sever all ties with the Constantinople Patriarchate, the Orthodox mother church, to protest its moves toward creating an independent church in Ukraine.

Close observers of Eastern Orthodox Christianity were not surprised when the recent World Russian People's Council bluntly rejected "abortion propaganda," efforts to promote LGBTQ+ rights and this age ...

FILE In this file photo taken on Saturday, July 28, 2018, Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill, right, Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, and Eastern Orthodox Patriarch of Alexandria and ...

MOSCOW -- Russian Orthodox leaders are set to end nine decades of bitter division by reuniting the main church in Russia with one that broke away after communism took over. Patriarch Alexy II, who ...

The Ukrainian government has declared that a branch of the Orthodox Church has failed to sever its longstanding ties with Moscow — and could soon be banned. The looming ban affects one of the two ...