Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Metropolitan Klyment, the spokesman for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. Photo: news.church.ua In ...

Three and a half years into Russia's full-scale invasion, the Ukrainian branch of the Russian Orthodox Church is finally facing its judgment day. Under a law passed in 2024, the branch — the Ukrainian ...

Ukrainian lawmakers on August 20 approved a bill banning religious organizations linked to the Russian Orthodox Church, which Kyiv has criticized for being supportive of Moscow's full-scale invasion.

Ukraine’s parliament moved forward on Tuesday with long-standing plans to ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC). A lopsided 265 votes to 29 were cast in favor of a bill that will shut down religious ...

The “fratricidal war” reference affirmed ties binding Orthodox churches in that region, which date to the 988 conversion of Prince Vladimir and the creation of the Holy Rus. Caught between Vladimir ...

MINSK, 12 November (BelTA) – The canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church is being “literally destroyed” by the country’s leadership, with priests suffering abuse at the hands of Ukrainian security forces, ...

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 ...

A prayer service marking the third anniversary of the Russia’s invasion of Ukraine takes place Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025, at St. Mary’s Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Whitehall Township. Arch Bishop Daniel ...

Putin branded the ‘Anti-Christ’ by church leaders after claiming Ukraine war is ‘holy mission’ - ‘A devilish, demonic way of using the word of God,’ religious figures said after the Russian president’ ...

As President Donald Trump's administration works toward a diplomatic end to the war in Ukraine, the leaders of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) are warning that Vladimir Putin's Russia believes it ...

Critics say the Ukrainian vertep in its traditional form is antisemitic.