Across Russian-occupied Ukraine, Kremlin troops have shuttered places of worship since the first invasion began in 2014.

Estonian officials have threatened to shut down monasteries if they dont cut ties with Russia The Estonian Orthodox Church ...

The Estonian government has approved a bill that would require religious associations to renounce all ties with Moscow Read ...

The anti-abortion movement is on the rise in Russia, and the Kremlin is responding by changing the law to make terminations more difficult.

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The Patriarch who oversees the Russian Orthodox Church has depicted Moscow's invasion of Ukraine as part of a spiritual struggle against the West and gay pride parades. A council he presided over ...

The publication of the Vatican declaration Fiducia supplicans in December 2023, allowing the blessing of same-sex couples in ...

Greece’s mobilization to strengthen the churches of the Diaspora by appointing a few hundred priests comes at a time when the ...

The Church has denounced the war and denies that it depends on Moscow. It has however not carried out autocephaly, the process of formally breaking off from Moscow’s leadership, despite Russian ...

Metropolitan Chrysostomos, who headed of the Vilnius-Lithuania Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church from 1990 to 2010, died ...