The Orthodox Church of St Peter and Paul, which opened in 1898, has changed ownership from the Russian Orthodox Church to the ...

In April 2018, he hosted Patriarch Kirill of Moscow during a historic visit—the first by a senior Russian Orthodox Church official to Albania. Amid the Orthodox Church’s division over the ...

The Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (MPEÕK) faces a critical choice: Break free from Moscow's yoke or ...

"Hungary also blocked sanctions against 27 individuals and organizations, including Patriarch Kirill, arguing that targeting ...

Szijjártó said the Hungarian government had "saved what's left of the the EU's respect by blocking those measures". #Ukraine ...

The former banker—with stints at McKinsey & Co. and Goldman Sachs—has long cultivated a quiet role as a Kremlin emissary to ...

Russia’s war against Ukraine has a significant religious dimension. The Kremlin relies heavily on the Moscow Patriarchate to ...

The Nirvana song Polly is based on real events. Kurt Cobain wrote it after a 14-year-old girl from Tacoma, Washington, was kidnapped, raped, and tortured by Gerald Friend in 1987. She managed to ...

Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Church, has zealously backed Russia’s ‘special military operation’ and castigates a morally ...

Turkish police have arrested 282 alleged PKK members, the ousting of pro-Kurdish mayors in the southeast continues; Fr Donald killed by Sagaing militiamen from an anti-military junta ...

Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) also condemned it as “a significant deviation from Christian moral teaching.” “Moscow could have used this document far more to position ...