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 congr...
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 foll...
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 ...
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 coun...
The leader of the Russian Orthodox Church has asked for prayers for those impacted by a bombing at a metro station in St Petersburg on Monday. Patriarch Kirill said in a statement that there was neve...
The Russian Orthodox Church is moving forward with new guidelines seeking to ban priests from blessing weapons of mass destruction and other large military hard The priests are being urged to ditch t...
The Russian Orthodox Church has warned that it would sever ties with the leader of the worldwide Orthodox community if he grants autonomy to Ukraine's Orth The stern warning follows Ecumenical Patri...
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has signed a petition calling for a total ban on abortion in Russia. Patriarch Kirill put his name to the document after worshipping with campaigners from the ...
