Russia's war and occupation of large swaths of Ukraine have led to hundreds of churches being damaged or destroyed, dozens of priests killed or kidnapped, and entire religious groups that don't ...

LYPIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — It’s one of 129 war-damaged Ukrainian religious sites recorded by UNESCO, the United Nations’ cultural organization. LYPIVKA, Ukraine (AP) — This Orthodox Easter season, an ...

(RNS) — Some Orthodox Christians in Ukraine will celebrate Christmas on Sunday (Jan. 7), but instead of Christmas bells, they will hear air raid sirens. The recent onslaught of missiles striking ...

In the coming weeks, the Ukrainian parliament (Verkhovna Rada) is likely to pass legislation that would ban the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Not only would this legislation deny the freedom of worship ...

Russia’s two-week war to wipe Ukraine off the map has now passed its two-year anniversary. Its cost to Russia has been enormous. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s folly has resulted in nearly 400,000 ...

Ukraine’s tangled political history with Russia has its counterpart in the religious landscape, with Ukraine’s majority Orthodox Christian population divided between an independent-minded group based ...

Cardinal Blase Cupich spoke out against “powerful voices trying to rewrite history” during an interfaith prayer service Monday to mark three years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of ...

A former Ukrainian parliamentarian and prominent philanthropist is calling on the U.S. Congress to ensure that the financial support it sends to Ukraine isn't enabling the persecution of Christians.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Tuesday condemned a move by Ukraine to ban a Moscow-linked branch of the Orthodox Church, describing it as an attack on Christianity and a blow to freedom of religion.

Responding to the deployment of North Korea soldiers to Russia, NATO’s secretary-general signaled that the action represented “a significant escalation” in its “ongoing involvement in Russia’s illegal ...

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