Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of the world's Eastern Orthodox Christians, arrives for a meeting with ...

The Ukrainian government has declared that a branch of the Orthodox Church has failed to sever its longstanding ties with Moscow — and could soon be banned. The looming ban affects one of the two ...

The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has opened 180 criminal cases against priests of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion ...

KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukraine has passed legislation moving its official Christmas holiday to December 25, further distancing itself from the traditions of the Putin-aligned Russian Orthodox Church, which ...

The spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians, speaking Friday before a New York audience, defended his 2019 decision to recognize an independent church in Ukraine, and he denounced the Russian ...