Pope Leo XIV met with a top Russian Orthodox cleric, the first such visit from Moscow since the papal election, and one that comes amid strained relations with Rome due to Russia’s ongoing war in ...

The Vatican confirmed that Pope Leo received Metropolitan Anthony, the senior Russian Orthodox Church cleric who chairs its ...

Pope Leo discussed the war in Ukraine on Saturday with Metropolitan Anthony, a senior cleric in the Russian Orthodox Church, ...

The Russian Orthodox Church issued a statement after the meeting, which said: “The discussion touched on numerous issues, including the state of ...

Pope Leo XIV will meet with Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk, head of external relations for the Russian Orthodox Church, ...

Pope Leo XIV held a first meeting on Saturday with a senior Russian Orthodox cleric at the Vatican since becoming the head of ...

About 25 miles (40 km) from a slowly advancing Russian frontline, a community of Ukrainian Catholics is tending to people ...

A cross and a dome of destroyed by shelling russian army of orthodox church in the recaptured by the Ukrainian army Hostomel city in Kyiv area, Ukraine, 06 April 2022 Maxym Marusenko-NurPhoto ...

Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, has justified Putin's decision to invade Ukraine in February 2022 on spiritual and ideological grounds. In the 10 months since the Russian ...

Hundreds of electors representing the Russian Orthodox Church's 165 million adherents are in Moscow to pick that resurgent institution's new leader. There was plenty of jockeying ahead of the ...

In the face of danger, first responders can use all the help they can get,  several said during the annual blessing of ...

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church formally changed the main date for the festivities, departing from the Russian tradition of celebrating on Jan. 7, according to the Julian calendar.