Not just monastery: Kremlin uses Orthodox nuns in Estonia to spread imperial ideology
Abbess appointed by Patriarch Kirill accused of echoing Russian state propaganda on European religious persecution.
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Law enforcement finds literature justifying Moscow war in Russian churches across Ukraine
The Russian Orthodox Church has been accussedof helping the Kremlin to advance its political interests and infiltrate other countries.
Estonian Parliament designates Moscow Patriarchate as sponsor of Russian aggression
Estonia's Parliament passed a statement condemning the Moscow Patriarchate for justifying Russia's aggression against Ukraine. The statement declares it a sponsor of military efforts, and calls for international action against its hostile influence operations.
Ukraine starts probe into Russian Patriarch Kirill over blessing Ukraine war
The Orthodox leader has repeatedly appeared on Russian state TV channels, backing the Kremlin's invasion and urging believers to unite in the war against Ukraine
Three reasons why Pope Francis perpetually fails Ukraine
For six months, the world is watching Russia invading sovereign Ukraine, bombing civil objects, killing and abusing civilians,…
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…
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…
Fight over subordination of Orthodox hierarchies spreads to Moldova
Despite the fact that Ukraine’s Orthodox church is about to be granted autocephaly and ever more people in…
Does Estonia’s history with two Orthodox churches have lessons for Ukraine?
Constantinople’s gift of autocephaly to Ukraine’s Orthodox church could have a very different outcome than the violent clashes…
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…
How the Moscow Patriarchate is creating a separatist Lavra “republic” in Kyiv
On April 23, 2016, Petro Poroshenko invited representatives from the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations to…
Deputy Viktor Yelensky: Moscow Patriarchate loses 70 parishes in two years
In two years, 60-70 parishes of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) have joined the Ukrainian Orthodox Kyivan…