Moscow Patriarchate losing parishes to Kyiv church and its dominance of Ukraine’s religious life
The Moscow Patriarchate may have succeeded in intimidating the Universal Patriarch of Constantinople not to grant autocephaly to…
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The Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate resembles the CPSU of Soviet times
Three important articles this week in the Moscow media suggest that the Russian Orthodox Church under Moscow Patriarch…
Moscow Patriarchate beefs up its staff for hybrid operations against Ukraine
The Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church has set up a new staff in the synod department…
Moscow Patriarchate Church in Ukraine headed toward the dustbin of history, Chapnin says
The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate is headed toward disintegration, and the only question is whether…
Another baker’s dozen of neglected Russian stories
The flood of news stories from a country as large, diverse and strange as the Russian Federation often…
Russian Orthodox Church returning to Soviet-era norms, Bychkov says
Vladimir Putin’s restoration of Soviet-era norms has hit the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC MP)…
How Russian Church serves Kremlin propaganda
The official involvement of the Russian Orthodox Church in the political process is so great, that in many…
Putin making Russia ‘an Orthodox caliphate,’ Nobel laureate says
Russians are turning to the church now not as they did after Chernobyl or the fall of communism…
Another terrorist training camp held at a Russian Orthodox Church near Moscow
The group E.N.O.T. Corps is a group of irregular fighters who fought in Ukraine alongside the "Donetsk and Luhansk…
Russian-Turkish crisis could open the way to independence for Ukraine’s Orthodox
As Russian calls for Türkiye to return the largest mosque in Istanbul to Christians have attracted far more…
Stalin and the Russian Orthodox Church
Moscow Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church demonstrated a new level of flexibility -- personally and, it is…
Russian Orthodox Church in Belarus training fighters for Russian world in special camps
Moscow may or may not get the airbase it wants in Belarus, but the Russian Orthodox Church is…
Terrorist youth camp set up at a Russian Orthodox Monastery near Moscow
A Russian Orthodox monastery outside of Moscow is openly cooperating in a youth indoctrination camp run by one…
Moscow patriarch says Ukrainian faithful no longer obligated to obey Kyiv
This article was originally published by the Jamestown foundation Both due to the other challenges Ukraine faces and…
Russia will not succeed in inciting inter-religious conflict in Ukraine, believes head of Greek Catholic Church
Head of the UGCC Stvyatoslav Shevchuk thinks that there is understanding between the churches and religious organizations which…
Russian media provocation ascribes leaflets calling for ‘Death to Muscovite Priests!’ to Ukrainian nationalists
Journalists from the Russian Channel 5 called Svoboda party supporters nationalist and extremists in their report on the…
Chronicle of terror: Religious persecution by pro-Russian militants in east Ukraine
Militants from the Donetsk People's Republic (DNR) and Luhansk People's Republic (LNR) terrorist organizations continue to steal, kill,…
Mercenaries in Donbas persecute “non-Orthodox” Christians
The separatists think that there is no place for these beliefs “in Orthodox Russia.” It is reported in…
Putin’s ‘Russian Spring’ idea was invented by Russian fascists in the 1920s
Commentators in Moscow and the West ever more frequently draw parallels between Vladimir Putin’s ideas and actions and…
Moscow Patriarchate has lost Ukraine and may lose even more
There is no question that the Moscow Patriarchate has alienated many Ukrainians because of its support for Kremlin…