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

Russia's invasion, which began in February 2022, has also been a source of religious controversy within the Eastern Orthodox Church and has driven a split among believers in both Russia and Ukraine.Vi ...

Until recently, Vladimir Putin insisted, at least publicly, that he didn’t want a cult of his personality. Not anymore. During the last three years of the war he started in Ukraine, he has embraced it ...

The patriarch of Russia's Orthodox Church, celebrating Christmas alongside Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin, said on Tuesday that the Western world despised Russia and its "alternative path of civilised ...

Afterward, he visited the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, where he met with Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church. In a statement released by the Kremlin, Putin extended his ...

The Kremlin informed Russians that Putin had ... That same year, the Russian Orthodox Church formally permitted an image of Putin’s face to be placed on a wall of the newly built Cathedral ...

in particular those willing to officially and openly condemn Moscow's invasion and the Kremlin regime’s policies. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church was established in 1990 as a self-governing ...

Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested that they ... antisemitism under Josef Stalin, when the Kremlin persecuted Jews and accused them of being ...