Pope John XXIII, seeking to open a conversation that would permit Russian Orthodox observers to attend ... more than four centuries old, and the current points of tension in relations between ...

paying special attention to "the humanitarian aspects of the current crisis and the actions of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church to overcome its consequences." The Pope and ...

Aug. 25 (UPI) --Pope Francis on Sunday condemned the Ukraine government's ban of the Russian-linked Orthodox Church.

Roman Catholic Church speaks in favor of unity of the Russian Orthodox Church in ... an independent local [national] Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Pope Francis I said at a meeting with a group ...

Russia's invasion, which began in February 2022, has also been a source of religious controversy within the Eastern Orthodox Church and has driven a split among believers in both Russia and Ukraine. V ...

"Generally, the cruellest are perhaps those who are of Russia but are not of the Russian tradition, such as the Chechens, the Buryats and so on," he said. The Pope added that "the one who invades ...

Orthodox Christians in Russia marked the feast ... and South Ossetia, as well as Russian soldiers purportedly in Ukraine’s Kherson region immersing themselves in water. However, unusually ...

Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, called on Thursday for both sides of the war in Ukraine to observe a Christmas truce. Orthodox Christians, including those ...