Rev. David Oravec clearly remembers that the email from Sweden arrived at 4:43 a.m. The pastor of St. Martin’s Lutheran Church in Annapolis had risen early to play racquetball and was intrigu… ...

Kyiv says the church, called the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC), has been spreading pro-Moscow propaganda and housing spies. Some 265 lawmakers passed a bill banning the Russian Orthodox Church ...

LVIV, Ukraine (RNS) — For centuries, Orthodox Ukrainians saw the traditional Julian calendar as one of the anchors of their church’s identity. Now many are switching to the Gregorian calendar.

After the service, Metropolitan Epiphanius, head of the pro-Kyiv Orthodox Church of Ukraine, blessed worshipers outside the church doors with holy water. Worshippers welcomed the eviction order.

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church formally changed the main date for the festivities, departing from the Russian tradition of celebrating on Jan. 7, according to the Julian calendar.

The Istanbul-based head of the Eastern Orthodox Church granted a breakaway wing, called the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, autocephaly — religious independence — from the Moscow Patriarchate in 2019. The ...

By Thomas Peter and Aleksandar Vasovic ZAPORIZHZHIA (Reuters) -About 25 miles (40 km) from a slowly advancing Russian ...