The assertion, made on Sunday, ratchets up Moscow Patriarch Kirill’s already staunch support for Russia’s war on Ukraine since its beginning in February.

Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill (left), pictured here giving an Easter sermon at the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow, Russia, on April 24, 2022, pushes a message of martyrdom to ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has terminated the Ukrainian citizenship of Orest Berezovsky, primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox ...

The global Orthodox Christian Church has faulted the Patriarch Kirill of Moscow for his stance on Russia’s three-year invasion of Ukraine. The 78-year-old Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church ...

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy revoked the citizenship of the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC).

Patriarch Kirill speaks during the Russia-Africa Summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, July 27, 2023. Photo courtesy of Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia ...

Patriarch Kirill has been a vocal supporter of the war, and is a high-profile ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. But Pope Francis has appeared to condemn the invasion in several addresses ...

Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, have blasted the "cowardly terrorist attack" in Moscow that has killed at least 133 people and prayed for the victims ...

The SBU said it had established that Metropolitan Onufrii, also known by his secular name, Orest Berezovskyi, voluntarily ...

Patriarch Kirill (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin put flowers at the Monument of Minin and Pozharsky at Red Square on November 4, 2019, in Moscow, Russia.

Russian soldiers who die in the line of duty in Ukraine have all of their sins forgiven, the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church proclaimed in a sermon, comparing their sacrificial death to th… ...