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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Ecumenical Patriarchate aims to create own structure in Lithuania, challenging Russian Orthodox Church
In the conflict between the Orthodox Patriarchates of Constantinople and Moscow, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I is seeking to…
Russian Orthodox Church shares responsibility for Russia’s aggression – Ecumenical Patriarch
“The Church and the State leadership in Russia cooperated in the crime of aggression, and share the responsibility…
Putin’s Patriarch Kirill spied for USSR in 1970s Switzerland – Swiss media
In the 1970s, as the Russian Orthodox Church’s representative to the World Council of Churches in Geneva, Patriarch…
Moscow Patriarchate says it has churches in 19 African countries, angering Orthodox world but giving FSB expanded possibilities
At the end of 2019, the Patriarch of Alexandria, whose canonical territory encompasses all of Africa, recognized the…
Historical churches of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra returned to Ukrainian state from Russia-affiliated church
The Russian-affiliated church in Ukraine, known as the Ukrainian Orthodox Cof the Moscow Patriarchate, has lost its rental…
Ukraine edges closer to banning Moscow-backed Orthodox Church
Ukraine has moved closer to banning the Moscow-backed Ukrainian Orthodox Church after a series of Security Service raids…
Ukraine raids monastery linked to Russian Orthodox Church
Security Service of Ukraine has carried out a raid at the St. Cyril and Methodius Convent of the…
Ukraine’s Security Service finds Russian agents in Moscow-backed church
The Security Service of Ukraine found Russian propaganda manuals, warehouses with pro-Kremlin literature, and “Hero of Russia” certificates…
Anti-Ukrainian leaflets, cash found in Security Service’s largest-yet raid on Moscow-affiliated church
The “counter-intelligence security measures” were carried out in the territories of the Holy Dormition Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra in Kyiv,…
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…
Russian Patriarch Kirill declared threat to very existence of Russia, this is written in nuclear doctrine
The Russian people are facing dangers that challenge the very existence of the country, said Patriarch of the…
Russian Patriarch offers to expand Russian values to faith, sacrifice, love for motherland
The Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill said that the list of basic values in Russia’s National…
Russian church owns property near Norway’s main naval base — Dagbladet
In recent years, the Russian Orthodox Church has bought a number of properties along the Norwegian coast, one…
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…
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…
How the Russian Orthodox Church enabled Putin’s war against Ukraine
Religion and primary Eastern Orthodoxy has been one of the most sensitive issues in Russian-Ukrainian relations, even amid…
Russian World: the heresy driving Putin’s war
A recently-signed declaration of theologians condemns the teaching of the Russian World. What is this Russian World? Is…
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…
