As President Donald Trump's administration works toward a diplomatic end to the war in Ukraine, the leaders of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) are warning that Vladimir Putin's Russia believes it ...

The spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians has defended his 2019 decision to recognize an independent church in ...

The Ukrainian government has declared that a branch of the Orthodox Church has failed to sever all ties with Moscow — and ...

Millions of Orthodox Christians attended midnight masses marking the Christmas holiday, a celebration overshadowed for many by the conflict in Ukraine. In Russia, home to the largest number of ...

Sister Vassa Larin is an American nun who is best known for teaching about the Eastern Orthodox faith to thousands of viewers on YouTube. But she was ousted as a nun of a U.S. branch of the ...

Patriarch Kirill, the head of Russian Orthodox Christianity, visited a submarine base in Kamchatka on Saturday as his country continues to wage war on Ukraine. Photo courtesy of Russia’s Eastern ...

Bartholomew I, the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople and one of Orthodox Christianity’s most influential leaders, has ...

ANCHORAGE — Orthodox Christians across Alaska have been taking part in three days of prayer for peace ahead of Friday’s summit there between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir ...

On Sunday, Russian State TV Channel 1 ran footage of Russian President Vladimir Putin attending a church on the premises of his Novo-Ogaryevo residency compound to honor the memory of the victims of ...

Orthodox Metropolitan Hilarion offers evangelicals more than an olive branch. Hilarion Alfeyev, the Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, located 80 miles northwest of Moscow, has a very big job. As head of ...

“But even on this calendrical rarity, churches will not celebrate Christ’s resurrection together.” A leading official from the world’s second-biggest church, the Russian Orthodox Church, has called on ...

Archbishop Alexei of the Diocese of Sitka and Alaska, center, leads a prayer service for peace in the Russia-Ukraine War, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025, at the Saint Innocent Cathedral in Anchorage, Alaska, ...