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Getting killed in Ukraine washes away all sins, Russian patriarch tells invading army
Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill has de-facto blessed Russian soldiers to die in Ukraine, promising them…
Moscow Patriarchate should be sanctioned for blessing the war
On 13 March, Patriarch Kirill blessed the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Guard Viktor Zolotov and bestowed him with the…
How the Russian Orthodox Church enabled Putin’s war against Ukraine
[editorial]Russia’s war against Ukraine was greatly enabled by the Russian Orthodox Church, and its hierarchs are currently cheering…
Bishop Diomid, who led church opposition to ROC MP, dies in car accident on Patriarch Kirill’s birthday
Diomid, who was Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) bishop in Chukotka before being stripped of that rank by the…
Georgian Church’s recognition of Ukrainian autocephaly ‘only a question of time,’ Horyevoy says
The Georgian Orthodox Church has not yet recognized the autocephaly of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church because it is…
Moscow Patriarch lays groundwork for challenging primacy of Ecumenical Patriarchate
At a meeting of a Moscow conference on “World Orthodoxy: Primacy and Collegiality in the Light of Orthodox…
Moscow laying groundwork for alternative patriarchate in Muslim Turkey
The Moscow Patriarchate is taking its battle against the Universal Patriarchate over Ukrainian autocephaly to a new level:…
More fallout from Ukrainian autocephaly: Russians learn Moscow Orthodox hierarchs were KGB officers
Specialists on religion in the Soviet Union have known for decades that many of the most senior hierarchs…
Constantinople: Moscow could be stripped of autocephaly, while Belarus could gain it
If Moscow continues to interfere with the march of Ukraine’s Orthodox to autocephaly, it could lose not only…
Chekist Operation Trust — model for Putin’s approach to Russian Church and Russian nationalism, Khazanov-Pashkovsky says
The Trust, as a Chekist operation directed at and designed to disorder the anti-Bolshevik White emigration at the…
Constantinople decision on Ukrainian Church truly has global consequences
Although the Universal Patriarch in Constantinople has not yet given the tomos of autocephaly to the Ukrainian Orthodox…
Moscow having failed to block Ukrainian autocephaly now attempting to exploit it
The Kremlin and the Moscow Patriarchate remain totally opposed to autocephaly for the Ukrainian church, but in recognition…
Constantinople could grant autocephaly to Belarusian Orthodox Church next, Gorbik says
Ukrainian Archpriest Sergey Gorbik says that Constantinople could grant autocephaly to the Belarusian Orthodox Church in the near…
Constantinople moves to grant autocephaly to Ukrainian Church, outraging Moscow
Yesterday, the Ecumenical Patriarchate announced that it has appointed as its exarchs in Kyiv an archbishop from the…
Three signs Moscow Patriarch Kirill knows he’s lost on Ukrainian autocephaly
The Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC MP) continues to assert that it will be able…
Moscow Patriarchate takes lead in prisoner exchange to its benefit in Ukraine
The Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church, virtually “the last acceptable mediator between Moscow and Kyiv,” played…
Moscow Patriarchate hasn’t ‘freed’ Ukrainian Orthodox Church but rather imposed new limits
The amendments to the rules governing the Russian Orthodox Church have been presented as giving the Ukrainian Orthodox…
Moscow Patriarchate taking control over property of its parishes in Ukraine to block them from leaving
Faced with a rising tide of parishes in Ukraine whose members have voted to transfer their allegiance to…
Scholar: Russian Orthodox Church Moscow Patriarchate supports repressions, militarism
It would be comforting to believe that Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin was speaking only for himself when he suggested…
Chaplin, ‘a Zhirinovsky from the Orthodox Church,’ says mass repressions necessary and reasonable
Mass repressions don’t just start; the groundwork has to be laid in advance. And that task is being…