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Russian forces have occupied parts of Ukrainian territory since 2014 when they seized the Crimean Peninsula on Putin’s orders. In February 2022, Putin announced what he described as a “special ...

He added: “One priest, whose code name was Russian and who transmitted news to the Polish services, worked until recently in the Vatican for Pope ­Francis”. John Paul II’s reign was an ...

The opening of 600 positions for Greek Orthodox priests in the ... Greece’s actions. Since the Russian Exarchate in Africa was established in just the last three years, Moscow has sent approximately ...

The creation of 600 organic positions for priests of the Diaspora is a long ... to become independent from the Russians. Since the Russian Orthodox Church had tried in vain to impose itself ...

A viral video features a Russian woman cleverly charging Rs 100 per selfie to every Indian who approached her for a photo. Tired of the constant requests for pictures with foreigners, she came up ...

Military medic Natalya carried a jug of water blessed by priests at the Sviatogirsk monastery in eastern Ukraine as she celebrated Orthodox Epiphany in a Russian-affiliated church, despite the war.

Karlovy Vary councilors are seeking to strip Russian orthodox priest Nikolai Lishchenjuk who was extradited from the Czech Republic for publicly supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine, of his ...

Local media showed people bathing in Novosibirsk, Murmansk, and South Ossetia, as well as Russian soldiers ... state," one military priest said. Across Russia, the Orthodox devout celebrate ...

Russia is plagued by widespread occult practices, Fr. Andrey Tkachev, an archpriest of the Russian Orthodox Church, has warned, describing it as a serious moral threat to the country. In the latest ...

At least three people have been killed in a Russian drone and missile attack on the Ukrainian capital, while three others were killed in the country’s south. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr ...