A group of lawmakers in the United States has asked the U.S. Attorney General to look into whether some Orthodox churches in ...

CORRECTION: The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Porfirije, met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his defense minister to implement a temporary ceasefire in Ukraine for 36 hours this week to allow Orthodox Christians to attend Christmas services, ...

Vassa Larin, an American nun was ousted from a U.S. branch of the Russian Orthodox Church after criticizing blessing of invasion of Ukraine. (AP Video: Alex Schuller) ...

A new dispute underscored the split in Moldova's Orthodox faith on Wednesday as the ex-Soviet state's largest church rejected any notion that it was a "Russian church" while a rival church linked to ...

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 Orthodox Church in America has been holding three days of prayer for peace at its churches across Alaska this week in advance of the summit between the U.S. and Russian presidents in Anchorage ...

Last public word of Pope Francis was his Urbi Et Orbi message on Easter Sunday. The majority of the text dealt with peace, the main aim of the Vatican diplomacy. After mentioning all the countries in ...

Before 2022, Sister Vassa Larin was best known as an Orthodox nun who taught thousands on YouTube about saints and holy days. She became one of the most prominent female intellectuals in Orthodoxy — ...

A Russian Orthodox monastery's plan to build a church on its Saint James campus advanced after Head of the Harbor’s planning board approved the site plan. The Monastery of the Glorious Ascension on ...