The world of sport is "affected by sin" and the Russian doping scandal shows the "brokenness in the world", the organisation Christians in Sport has said. A seven month investigation into the country...
The Archbishop of Constantinople, the virtual leader of the Eastern Orthodox church, has angered many members by allowing Ukraine to go their separate ways. Rus Bartholomew I, the ecumenical patriarc...
Christians in Russia are now banned from discussing their faith outside of churches and other designated places under new anti-terror laws. From Wednesday onwards it is illegal to preach, teach or sh...
A Russian blogger has been convicted of inciting religious hatred for playing Pokemon Go in a church and given a suspended sentence. Ruslan Sokolovsky, 22, pleaded not guilty to the offence in a cour...
Four people suspected of an arson attack linked to a movie about the last Russian tsar's affair with a ballerina have been arrested, Russian police said. Matilda, which is set to be released in Octob...
A Christian woman has brought a landmark case to court in St Petersburg after challenging authorities for fining her 10,000 rubles (£122) after she hosted wors Olga Glamozdinova, who allowed a congre...
A Russian Orthodox Christian television channel is offering to pay for one-way plane tickets out of the country for homosexual people. In a video posted on Tsargrad TV's social media channels, televi...
A man in Russia could go to prison for up to a year for saying "there is no God" in an online argument. Viktor Krasnov, 38, made the remark as well as others on a local website in his southern hometo...
A Russian man faces years in prison for playing Pokemon Go in a church. Ruslan Sokolovsky, 22, has been charged with inciting hatred, after playing the smartphone game in the Church of All Saints in ...
A Lithuanian church leader's compared the actions of Russia during the Ukraine conflict to that of the leadership during the Soviet era. Irmantas Pinkoraitis, President of the Baptist Union of Lithua...
Russia's culture minister has tried to calm "hysteria" from the Russian Orthodox Church about a new film depicting an affair between the country's last tsa The intervention by Vladimir Medinsky follo...
Bishop Yevtikhy Kurochkin from the Epiphany Cathedral in Siberia has expressed dissatisfaction with President Putin. It is the first time the bishop from Ishim has spoken out against the regime, desc...
The Archbishop of Constantinople, seen as a leader in the Orthodox Church, has angered the Russian branch by seemingly recognising Ukrainian ecclesiastical inde Patriarch Bartholomew sent two bishops...
The Russian Orthodox Church has supported building the statue of a man widely accused of killing thousands of people during the Middle Ages. The Governor of Oryol, a city south of Moscow, has been at...
The Russian Orthodox Church has backed a production of the musical Jesus Christ Superstar despite protests from believers who say it could be blasphemous. "It is not right to forbid an artist from dr...
The Russian Orthodox Church has said it is severing ties with the leader of the worldwide Orthodox community after his decision to grant Ukrainian cle Metropolitan Hilarion said the church's Holy Syn...
The Russian Orthodox Church has expressed support of President Vladimir Putin's decision to bomb Islamic State (IS) targets in Syria, calling the fight against The comments come after Russia conduct...
A new law punishing parents in Russia who smack their children has been branded unbiblical by the country's Orthodox Church which has taken the unusual step of The Russian premier, who has enjoyed c...
The Russian Orthodox Church has spoken out against a plan to legalise polygamy in the country. A legal advisor in Islamic law, known as a mufti, has said specifically allowing men to have more than o...
The leader of the Orthodox Church in Russia has accompanied President Vladimir Putin on a trip to Greece to negotiate energy deals. It is the Russian president's first trip to a European Union count...
