But in the Soviet Era, beginning in 1952, Vladivostok was a closed military city, and the only people allowed in and out were ...

Russian courts intensified civil bans on Baptist churches for meeting without state permission in the past year, according to rights group Forum 18. Secret police surveillance, raids and prosecution ...

Russia’s FSB security service said on Friday it had arrested two church figures suspected of plotting to kill a priest close to President Vladimir Putin on the orders of a Ukrainian spy agency. There ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) – The leaders of Russia’s Orthodox church and Poland’s Catholic church signed a document Friday that urges their nations to forgive each other for past wrongs. The signing in ...

When Tucker Carlson, a popular American right-wing conservative, released an interview with lawyer Robert Amsterdam titled “Ukrainian churches are being burned and priests beaten,” it quickly gained ...

KYIV (Reuters) - Four-fifths of Ukrainians said they supported a new law banning Russia-affiliated religious groups in a survey released on Tuesday, as Kyiv seeks to root out a branch of the Orthodox ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has given the Russian Orthodox Church possession of the country's most valuable religious icon. Putin gifted the icon – Andrei Rublev's "Trinity" – to the care of the ...

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kyiv-Halych, head of the worldwide Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, delivers the homily during a Mass of thanksgiving for Aid to the Church in Need at St.

From sermons to state ceremonies, faith has increasingly been woven into political messaging, shaping how power, sacrifice ...

Russian Christmas is actually celebrated on January 7 and not on December 25. This is because the Russian Orthodox Church ...

Russia's Christmas date goes back centuries, to a time when the entire Christian world followed the Julian calendar ...