A Ukrainian court has ordered a leading Orthodox priest who is accused by authorities of condoning Russia’s invasion to be put under house arrest. Metropolitan Pavel, the abbot of the Kyiv-Pechersk ...
MOSCOW, July 14. /TASS/. Kiev’s district court has granted the Ukrainian Security Service’s motion and changed detention conditions for Metropolitan Pavel, the abbot of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra ...
In Putin’s bid to recast Russia as a global superpower, he champions a society built on pro-war activism, puritanical values ...
KIEV, April 12. /TASS/. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said on Tuesday it had detained Viktor Medvedchuk, the head of the political council of the Opposition Platform - For Life party.
In late August of 2018, Patriarch Kirill, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, flew from Moscow to Istanbul on an urgent mission. He brought with him an entourage—a dozen clerics ...
At least five people were killed in a bus accident in southern Armenia, the Caucasus nation’s Interior Ministry said on April 27. A statement said nine others were injured in the accident.
Close observers of Eastern Orthodox Christianity were not surprised when the recent World Russian People's Council bluntly rejected "abortion propaganda," efforts to promote LGBTQ+ rights and this ...
A Russian priest spoke out against the war in Ukraine in a March YouTube video. Ioann Kurmoyarov's comments led to his arrest in St. Petersburg on Tuesday, Russian media reported. He was accused ...
Autocrats in China, Russia, and elsewhere are now making common cause with MAGA Republicans to discredit liberalism and ...
In response to the tragic humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, and the immediate aid needed there, His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America announced a major fundraising effort today that will help ...
How a Balkan crime gang sprang a Russian businessman from Italian house arrest. Vladimir Jovancic wasn’t shy about his affinity for the criminal underworld: the nickname for his TikTok account ...