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(RNS) — The story of the Rev. Hilarion Alfeyev captures how a once robust effort to bring Russian Orthodox Christianity and the Catholic Church together has foundered. (RNS) — Diplomacy is back.

Imagine stepping into a church that looks fully Orthodox—icons, incense, chanting, bearded priests—but it's actually Catholic ...

During an Easter service at Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral held on Saturday night, Russian Orthodox Church head Patriarch Kirill referred to the holiday as a “victory day.” “Easter is a victory ...

Several properties in Karlovy Vary, including a church building, have been handed over to the Hungarian diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, according to Czech press reports. The church, which has ...

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, released doves from the steps of Moscow's Annunciation Cathedral on Monday to mark the Feast of the Annunciation. Senate Democratic ...

Chairman of the Conference of Catholic Bishops of Germany Georg Bätzing called Vladimir Putin's actions “unchristian” and criticized the closeness of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and the Russian ...

It was a momentous event — the first time that the Catholic pope and the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church had met since 1054 when the schism between the two churches occurred.

His youngest son is a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church. “Since Easter falls on the same date this year, the only feeling one can have is joy,” he told CNA in a written interview trans ...

The global Orthodox Christian Church has faulted the Patriarch Kirill of Moscow for his stance on Russia’s three-year invasion of Ukraine. The 78-year-old Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church ...

Estonia's efforts to remove Kremlin influence via the Russian orthodox church have been dubbed "the great onion war," referring to the classic shape of domes on many Russian churches, in a Postimees ...

“This was not only an act of war; it was an act of desecration,” according to the global Orthodox Christian Church’s public ... alarmed and shocked by the Russian strike on an important ...