Kremlin has made defending Moscow Patriarchate key part of Russian foreign policy, Russian expert says
The revised Foreign Policy Concept paper the Kremlin released this week has declared that the defense of the…
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Moscow Patriarchate’s war in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra: church turmoil in Ukraine, explained
Hello father Cyril. Please get us up to speed on what's happening in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. Who has…
SBU charges Moscow-linked Kyiv monastery abbot with inciting religious hatred and denying Russian aggression
Dubbed by Ukrainian media as "Pasha Mercedes" for his fondness for luxury cars and regular violations of traffic…
Russia continues to weaponize religion to perpetuate long-standing info ops and discredit Ukraine – ISW
Russian milbloggers responded to footage posted on January 7 of uniformed Ukrainian servicemen attending Orthodox Christmas services at…
Head of Ukraine’s Church holds Christmas service at historic monastery long linked to Russia
On 7 January, Ukrainian believers attended a service at the Pechersk Kyiv Lavra in Kyiv for the first…
SBU raids more facilities of Moscow-backed Orthodox Church in three regions
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) reports that its employees are conducting "counter-intelligence (security) measures" at the facilities…
Ukraine sanctions clergymen of Moscow-backed Orthodox Church, one bishop under investigation
On 1 December 2022, Zelenskyy signed a decree that imposes personal, including financial, sanctions against the clergymen of…
First Ukrainian region votes to ban Moscow-affiliated church
On November 29, representatives of the Lviv Regional Council voted to ban the activities of religious organizations (associations)…
Xenophobic brochures found in Moscow-affiliated church in Ukraine’s west
Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) found propaganda materials denying the existence of Ukraine in the facilities of the Moscow-affiliated…
SBU raids Moscow Patriarchate-controlled Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery complex in Ukrainian capital (updated)
On the morning of 22 November 2022, the Security Service of Ukraine reported on Telegram that it was…
Only 4% of Ukrainians still identify as followers of Moscow Orthodox church – survey
The share of Ukrainians identifying as members of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate has fallen…
Half of Ukrainians want Moscow Patriarchate church banned in Ukraine, poll shows
One of the Ukrainian reputable pollsters, the Sociological Group Rating, has published the results of its eighth national…
Moscow Patriarchate tells Russian troops: “Your task is to wipe the Ukrainian nation off the face of the earth”
In the wake of the exposure of the Russian massacre of Ukrainian civilians in Bucha, an action that…
Leaders of Moscow Patriarchate in Ukraine shifting allegiance to Kyiv
When Vladimir Putin began his full-scale war in Ukraine on February 24, 2022, he destroyed many things but…
Moscow Patriarchate moved into Africa to provide cover for FSB officers and PMCs, not to punish anyone over Ukraine, Horyevoy says
The Moscow Patriarchate has insisted and most people have accepted the idea that Kirill has expanded the presence…
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…
39% of Orthodox in Ukraine allied to Ukrainian church, more than twice than to the Moscow church
Now, a poll of 5,000 Ukrainians by the Ukrainian Institute of the Future and the New Image Marketing…
Moscow worried about possible moves to Orthodox autocephaly in Belarus and Moldova
Religious affairs specialist Milena Faustova says that “the closer the August 24 date of the visit of Bartholomew…