ranging from the shortage of priests to the recent sex scandals. Moreover, both the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Rite Catholic churches allow married clergy. So do Protestants; and, in fact ...

MOSCOW, March 3. /TASS/. Gunmen from Ukrainian volunteer battalions have kidnapped an Orthodox priest from a monastery near the town of Ugledar in eastern Ukraine, the Donetsk News Agency said on ...

Only 31% of Orthodox priests publicly encouraged parishioners to get vaccinated compared to 62% of all clergy. “They were trying to avoid conflicts,” said Krindatch, the study’s lead ...

Critics say Kyiv is attacking religious freedom in its efforts to break the Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s ties with Moscow.

Vladimir Putin’s “family values” tsar has reportedly left her Orthodox priest husband for a Russian ... s war of aggression” ...

Aug. 24, President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a law which prohibits religious organizations tied to the Russian state.

Russian Orthodox priests have visited the scene of a huge ... to press hard towards the city of Pokrovsk in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region. Ukraine's officials said earlier this week the ...

Russian Patriarch Kirill on August 23 enforced the decision to defrock Orthodox priest Andrei Kudrin over his prayers for reconciliation between Russians and Ukrainians. Orthodox priests across ...

On Radio Svoboda the testimony of one of the religious living abroad after refusing to recite the prayer for war and being suspended by the Moscow Patriarchate. Having left Jerusalem, where he ...

ADDS stats on cases against priests, Ukrainian church ... The Istanbul-based head of the Eastern Orthodox Church granted a breakaway wing, called the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), autocephaly ...

Despite GOP concerns over government interference, local evangelicals agree that the historic church must fully separate from ...