The announcement that Pope Francis will meet with Kirill, Russian Orthodox patriarch of Moscow, in Cuba on February 12 is, paradoxically, both a Big Deal and something that ought to have become ...

“Whom do you choose Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia?” Each intoned the same answer: “Alexei, Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod.” Thus last week, by a simple roll-call ...

‘The Russian Orthodox Church has followed the developments in Egypt with concern and bitterness. Blood has been spilt and Christian churches have been destroyed again. There is another manifestation ...

Estonia's Minister of Internal Affairs, Lauri Läänemets, is set to propose the Riigikogu to recognize the Moscow Patriarchate as a terrorist organization in order to ban its activities within ...