Explore religious figures shaping global events in 2025. From influential leaders to rising voices, this four-part series ...

The publication of the Vatican declaration Fiducia supplicans in December 2023, allowing the blessing of same-sex couples in ...

Vladimir Putin met the head of the Russian Orthodox Church ... including the leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, who raised concerns that this could set a dangerous precedent for all ...

In April 2018, he hosted Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill in Albania ... business and entrepreneurship. Pope Francis emphasized that hope is “always possible” in Jesus Christ during an ...

MANILA, Philippines — Pope Francis has renewed his proposal for the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church to have ... of Saint John Lateran in Rome. The current divergence in the celebration ...

A video showing Russian soldiers executing six unarmed Ukrainian prisoners of war is “appalling,” according to Major ...

With advances in astronomy, Pope Gregory created the Gregorian ... Christianity is the largest religion in Ukraine and historically, the Russian Orthodox Church has dominated the religious lives ...

Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), met the leader of the ...

A number of Orthodox priests who are against Russia's invasion of Ukraine have sought refuge in Germany, where they face many challenges.After Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in ...

Russia halted gas deliveries to the pro-Russian separatist region of Transnistria ... Christmas in the predominantly Christian Orthodox Republic of Moldova is celebrated on January 6 and 7 ...

The governing synod of the Russian Orthodox Church’s demoted Metropolitan ... told the TASS news agency he had not “fitted with the current socio-political situation”, some media speculated ...