Pope Francis and Kirill, patriarch of Moscow and all Russia, signed a Joint Declaration in Havana in 2016, which aimed to ...

During an Easter service at Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral held on Saturday night, Russian Orthodox Church head ...

The story of the Rev. Hilarion Alfeyev captures how a once robust effort to bring Russian Orthodox Christianity and the ...

During his 12-year pontificate, Francis took important, even historical, ecumenical initiatives. In 2016, he became the first ...

Metropolitan Aaviel (Georgy Vasilyevich Ponomarev) - Patriarchal Vicar of the Moscow Metropolis, responsible for the work of the russian orthodox church in neighboring countries. Metropolitan ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Russia of trying to create an "impression of a ceasefire," saying Russian ...

President Vladimir Putin and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin joined other worshippers for an Easter service led by the head of Russia's Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, a faithful backer of the ...

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 ...

head of the Russian Orthodox Church and a vocal supporter of Putin and the war in Ukraine. Putin offered no details on how the ceasefire would be monitored or whether it would cover airstrikes or ...