Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a keynote address on Nov. 28 at the Plenary Session of the World Russian Peoples’ Concilium, a faith-based organization led by the head of Russia's Orthodox ...

The regime of Vladimir Putin is using the Russian Orthodox Church in efforts to repress other faiths not only in Ukraine and other foreign countries but within Russia’s borders, clergy and rights ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON — Patriarch Kirill, leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, has been a loyal ally of President Vladimir Putin for years.

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Ukrainian government moves to ban Orthodox church branch it says failed to completely sever longstanding ties with pro-war Moscow. Action deepens religious battleground in war, coming year after ...

The Russian Orthodox Church is allied with President Putin. But in New York, some of its members are quietly anguished. By Liam Stack Last week, more than a dozen religious and political leaders sat ...

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 ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, accompanied by Patriarch of Russia Kirill and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (in background), at a monastery outside Moscow in 2017. Alexey Nikolsky/AFP via Getty ...

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 Church ...