their moral compasses point towards the Kremlin rather than Christ’s teachings. In 2016 Vsevolod Chaplin, formerly a senior member in the church, spoke glowingly of both Ivan the Terrible and ...

Russia's invasion, which began in February 2022, has also been a source of religious controversy within the Eastern Orthodox ...

While Alexy II enjoyed a degree of freedom, Kirill has consistently aligned with the Kremlin, especially regarding Ukraine. As early as 2009, he criticized the independence of the Orthodox Church ...

Father Bryan Zielenieski talks about church closures and the fall in attendance in the Diocese of Buffalo, New York. "We essentially went to half of what we used to back in the early 2000s," he ...

Pastor Caroline Omolo.Credit...Kang-Chun Cheng for The New York Times Supported by By Sarah Hurtes Reporting from Nairobi For nearly a decade, Kenya’s only church led and attended by L.G.B.T.Q ...

Aleksandr Lukashenko visited the Holy Dormition Stavropigial Monastery in Zhirovichi. The conversation with the clergy was ...

The Kremlin on Wednesday accused Ukraine of committing a "terrorist attack" by killing a Russian general and his aide in Moscow, in its first comments since the bomb blast. "It is now obvious who ...

Settling on a swath of land that eventually became known as New Jersey, they established churches that served as the hubs of communities as well as places of worship. The colonists who arrived in ...

“The Irony of Fate” is a turn-of-the-year TV tradition that endures even in households that are now wary of Russian culture. By Valeriya Safronova When the film “The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy ...

The Wall Street Journal's Evan Gershkovich "never stopped reporting" during his grueling imprisonment inside Russia. On Thursday, his name showed up where he always preferred: as the author of a ...

The Kremlin said Thursday that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban proposed a Christmas truce in Ukraine to President Vladimir Putin in a phone call the day before. The Hungarian nationalist ...