Lipskar, one of Florida’s most influential Orthodox leaders and a powerhouse rabbi who helped transform Surfside and Bal ...

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

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

Vladimir Putin's offer of a three-day ceasefire in the war in Ukraine is designed only to avoid new U.S. secondary sanctions and has nothing to do with peace.

COMMENTARY: From smuggled aid to candlelit prayers, Ukraine’s faithful are holding the line against both bombs and despair.

St. John died in a building behind the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral on Capitol Hill. The room where he died is a ...

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

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 ...

Pope Francis, a voice for the poor who overcame fierce resistance to reshape the Catholic Church, died of a stroke and heart failure on Easter Monday at the age of 88, the Vatican announced.

“During all the years of his pontificate, he actively promoted dialogue between the Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches, as well as constructive interaction between Russia and the Holy ...

The conflict brought relations between the Vatican and the Russian Orthodox Church to a new low in 2022 when Francis said its Patriarch Kirill, who supported the conflict, should not act like “P ...

LYON, France — Church bells tolled in mourning. Well-wishers flocked into pews. Tributes to Pope Francis poured in from ...