Patriarch Filaret of Kyiv, an Orthodox Church official who helped create a denomination free from Russian Orthodox Church control, has died at the age of 97. #Filaret #OrthodoxChurch #Russia #Ukraine #Moscow #Ukrainianwar…
Sat Mar 7, 2026 - 2:54 pm EST (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Leo XIV on Thursday met in a private audience with Professors Stephen Bullivant and Stephen Cranney, two prominent sociologists who notably published a study showing that…
A SENIOR Russian Orthodox Church leader, Metropolitan Kirill (Pokrovsky) of Stavropol, has called for Russia to occupy more Ukrainian territory, as the war enters its fifth year. In an interview last week with the Russian…
SENIOR officials in Moldova have called for calm and respect for the law regarding church property after a group of believers clashed with police after a prolonged dispute. The incident, in the village of Dereneu, in central…
THE Serbian Orthodox Church has excommunicated two prominent theologians, Blagoje Pantelić and Vukašin Milićević. Both men are outspoken critics of the Church’s growing support for the Serbian President, Aleksandar Vučić,…
THE Primate of Ukraine’s independent Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Epiphany (Dumenko), has urged Moscow-linked Orthodox communities to break free of Russia’s “spiritual yoke”, as a brief truce in missile strikes ended in new…
A PROPOSAL for the formation of a new independent Bosnian Orthodox Church could threaten intercommunal tensions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where religious affiliation is tied closely to ethnic belonging. The proposal, set out…
By Michael Gryboski, Editor Wednesday, January 21, 2026Quick SummaryAI SummaryFormer Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of 'heresy' for comments in an Orthodox Christmas…
AN ECUMENICAL conference in Helsinki has called on Christians to show “theological clarity and moral courage” in repudiating Russian Orthodox attempts to justify the Russian war against Ukraine.The Helsinki conference,…
Tue Dec 2, 2025 - 12:12 pm ESTTue Dec 2, 2025 - 12:21 pm EST ISTANBUL, Turkey (LifeSiteNews) — As part of the last public act of his apostolic journey to Turkey, Pope Leo XIV imparted an ecumenical blessing together with the…
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