The Russian Orthodox Church is slowly but surely gaining a foothold in Africa. Experts say Russia is using its expansion as a ...

Filaret led a movement in Ukraine that created a schism among Orthodox believers and, ultimately, a church independent of ...

The Patriarchate’s support for the military has intensified, and its outreach has expanded to America’s religious right. But ...

Filaret Denysenko co-founded the unrecognized Kyiv Patriarchate in 1992 and was the patriarch of Ukraine from 1995 to 2018.

Orthodox Patriarch Filaret of Kyiv has died at 97. He is remembered for his work to establish an independent Ukrainian ...

Patriarch Filaret of Kyiv, an Orthodox Church official who helped create a denomination free from Russian Orthodox Church ...

Patriarch Filaret of Kyiv, who worked for decades to establish an independent Ukrainian Orthodox church that was free from ...

The Patriarch Emeritus of Kiev has passed away at the age of 98. He had long been described as “the most Soviet of the ...

In Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine, a once diverse and free religious ecosystem is being filtered into one faith: the ...

(Corrects to remove reference to Eduard Shevardnadze being the first post-Soviet president of Georgia in paragraph 9 of March ...

The political role of Russia’s most powerful religious institution is facing renewed scrutiny.