The decision to close Lavra monastery to clergy from the Russian-controlled Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate has been seized upon by the Kremlin and the Russian Orthodox Church as ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin, suggesting that the Russian leader has little regard for Christianity because he rejected an Easter truce.

Eric Moore’s windows rattled as Ukraine’s air defense systems intercepted hundreds of incoming drones and missiles early ...

Back from 17 days of traveling, talking and trenchering through Russia, a five-man delegation representing the World Council of Churches last week reported that, despite repression, religion in the ...

The Russians, seething, are threatening to break entirely with the mother church, possibly provoking what some are calling the greatest schism in Christianity since the East-West divide in 1054. The ...

One year since Russia launched a military invasion of Ukraine, academic and policy experts have focused extensively on the military and economic dimensions of the prosecution and impacts of the war.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., describes herself as a “Christian Nationalist” but doesn’t seem to know much about Christians outside our nation. In a move that would have made Soviet ...

Too many on the American political Right are suffering from the delusion that President Vladimir Putin’s Russia is a land of traditional Christian values and honorable patriotism. A former enemy, yes, ...

Orthodox Metropolitan Hilarion offers evangelicals more than an olive branch. Hilarion Alfeyev, the Metropolitan of Volokolamsk, located 80 miles northwest of Moscow, has a very big job. As head of ...

A 2024 survey by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology found that 56% of Orthodox Ukrainians identified with the Ukrainian independent church, while only 6% identified with the Russia-linked ...

For years, Vladimir Putin has sought to present Russia as the champion of Christian and traditional values. He portrays the West as a dystopia of decadence, where elites push “strange and trendy ideas ...