THE senior Russian Orthodox bishop who allegedly the target of a murder plot by two ethnic Ukrainian laymen has asked to meet ...

An imprisoned Ukrainian Orthodox Church priest has been sent to a hard labor camp in Russia to serve a 14-year sentence on ...

Father Bohdan Geleta says beatings and torture were a part of life during detention in occupied Ukraine, where inmates ...

After Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, hundreds of Orthodox priests faced repression because ...

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.

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) claims to have thwarted a Ukrainian plot to assassinate a prominent priest with close ... is widely reported in Russian media as Putin’s “confessor.” ...

The Feb. 24 anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine was an opportunity to offer "ever more fervent prayers for peace," ...

A FORMER Russian Orthodox priest, now ministering as an Anglican, has urged Western church support for a close friend ...

Two priests have been accused of plotting to assassinate a Russian bishop known to be Vladimir Putin ’s personal Orthodox confessor. The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) held clerics Denis ...

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He then went to the United States and was ordained as a priest in Jackson [ Mississippi?]. But, Russians do not get spiritual joy fr om him -- he can’t speak Russian. Only the Assyrians understand ...