Russian courts have banned three more Baptist churches affiliated with the Council of Churches Baptists in the southern region of Krasnodar amid an ongoing crackdown on unregistered congregations ...

Lawmakers from several opposition parties – Holos (Voice), European Solidarity, and Batkivshchyna – blocked Ukraine's parliament rostrum on July 23 following the governing party's decision to not ...

A Russian official pointed to Islamic "sleeper cells" after gunmen carried out coordinated attacks on synagogues and churches in two cities in the southern region of Dagestan, killing at least 20 ...

WASHINGTON — Patriarch Kirill, leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, has been a loyal ally of President Vladimir Putin for years. But his vociferous support of the invasion of Ukraine has drawn ...

From sermons to state ceremonies, faith has increasingly been woven into political messaging, shaping how power, sacrifice ...

EKLUTNA, Alaska — The Russian Orthodox church on the outskirts of Alaska’s biggest city is packed with treasures for the Christian faithful: religious icons gifted by Romanov czars, panels of oil ...

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(RNS) — After three Russian Orthodox Church priests were expelled from Bulgaria on charges of espionage last month, their former church is at the center of a diplomatic rift between the Russian and ...

When Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus’ was head of the Russian Orthodox Church’s external relations department, he would occasionally come to Washington, where the Librarian of Congress, James ...

The entryway to St. Vladimir Russian Orthodox Church in Miami, 101 NW 46th Ave., Florida’s oldest Russian Orthodox Church, founded in 1947. PEDRO PORTAL When Andrew Andreyev walks through the white ...

The damaged entrance of the Orthodox Christian monastery in Sviatohirsk, in eastern Ukraine, in April. (yasuyoshi chiba/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images) The Ukrainian arm of the Russian Orthodox ...