Russia is accused of targeting in particular Evangelical Christian communities in Ukraine's occupied Kherson region.

A damaged apartment after a rocket attack in the city of Kharkiv in Ukraine. The once-thriving neighborhood of Northern ...

I shared some information here about Russia's attacks on nearly 600 Christian churches in Ukraine during the current invasion ...

Although some Russian Orthodox priests have spoken out against “war liturgies,” they don’t all hold the same positions. Some have tried to stick with the patriarchal Church, others have ...

THE senior Russian Orthodox bishop who allegedly the target of a murder plot by two ethnic Ukrainian laymen has asked to meet the men who currently await trial A FORMER Russian Orthodox priest, now ...

The Estonian Ministry of the Interior’s religious affairs adviser ... In October 2023, the Russian Orthodox Church’s leading cleric in Bulgaria was expelled from the country on accusations ...

A Russian Orthodox priest has been sentenced to 14 days in custody over a 2014 photo in which he was shown with a Ukrainian flag, according to the cleric's own account and Russian media reports.

The alleged target was Tikhon Shevkunov, 66, whom Russian media have described for years as “Putin’s confessor.” Vladimir Putin (R) listens to Orthodox Church Metropolitan Tikhon Shevkunov ...

Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested that they lacked family and “roots,” the latest antisemitic statement from the Russian leader since his 2022 ...

Nevertheless, Ksenia Luchenko, an expert in the Russian Orthodox Church and a former fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations think-tank, said Savchenko's arrest was unique. She said ...

In 2023, he was appointed metropolitan of Crimea, becoming one of the top Russian Orthodox Church officials on the peninsula, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014. The FSB said in a statement ...

Russia's FSB security service said on Friday it had arrested two church figures suspected of plotting to kill a priest close to President Vladimir Putin on the orders of a Ukrainian spy agency.