Russian soldiers who die in the line of duty in Ukraine have all of their sins forgiven, the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church proclaimed in a sermon, comparing their sacrificial death to ...

A Russian priest interrupted the funeral service of a dead Ukrainian soldier last week, beating another priest from the Orthodox Church of Ukraine with a cross because of his comments about ...

Graves of fallen Russian soldiers from the Wagner mercenary forces on the outskirts of Bakinskaya, a town in Russia. Russia Dispatch In Bleak Russian Cemetery, Sea of Crosses Signals War’s True Toll ...

Russian military bloggers have criticized a Chechen award ceremony for Adam Kadyrov, son of regional leader Ramzan Kadyrov, after the Russian national emblem was displayed without its Orthodox ...

Bishop Iyakov, who backs Russia's war on Ukraine, returned to the controversial cross he erected at the Norwegian archipelago ...

China Military Chinese and Russian troops hold joint drill targeting cross-border terrorism Last week’s exercise was held in a river area near the Heilongjiang bridge and follows two deadly ...

The Russian leader shocked Kremlinologists by asking the country’s top priest “to engrave his own initials” on chains for the crosses worn by soldiers. Anna Nemtsova Updated Jan. 12 2025 3 ...

KYIV, Ukraine — A Kyiv court ordered a leading priest to be put under house arrest Saturday after Ukraine’s top security agency said he was suspected of justifying Russian aggression, a ...

On Feb. 24, Archpriest Victor Potapov, the rector of St. John the Baptist Russian Orthodox Cathedral in D.C., emerged through the ornate doors of the sanctuary and stood in front of parishioners ...

The U.K. Defense Ministry said in an analysis Saturday that the Russian offensive overseen by Gen. Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the General Staff of the Russian military, has fizzled.

After attending a midnight Orthodox Christmas service in Moscow on January 7, Vladimir Putin asked Patriarch Kirill to bless a collection of crosses and religious icons to be distributed to Russian ...