Russian Orthodox Church priests who defy Patriarch Kirill and oppose Russia’s war against Ukraine often face a stark choice: Conform or leave. Four priests who say they broke with the church to ...

Pope Leo has met with Metropolitan Anthony, a senior cleric in the Russian Orthodox Church, in a possible effort to ease ties ...

In Finland, the Russian church in Turku was located critically close to the Coastal Fleet. The authorities shut it down in August 2022 following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

As troops loyal to Russian President Vladimir Putin were seizing control of Crimea, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow deduced that an "internal political crisis" in Ukraine was ...