The announcement that Pope Francis will meet with Kirill, Russian Orthodox patriarch of Moscow, in Cuba on February 12 is, paradoxically, both a Big Deal and something that ought to have become ...

I’m 26 years old, an Orthodox Christian, living in Moscow ... Primate got the Church directly involved in the most scandalous and passionate election campaign in modern Russian history.

Finland calls the Russian Orthodox Church’s decision a unilateral and a sad move. The Finnish Orthodox Church also voiced hope that Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and Patriarch ...

This story appears in the April 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The new Russia steadily ebbs away on the drive out of Moscow. The gridlock and pollution, the sprawling malls and ...

MOSCOW, October 20. /TASS/. The Russian Orthodox Church has recognized Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople as a schismatic based on the Orthodox Church canons, Metropolitan Hilarion ...