Foreign intelligence service accuses him of trying to displace Russian Orthodoxy and dismember Orthodox Ukraine

Easter celebrations in Syria should be limited to prayers held exclusively inside churches, Church leaders said.

Serbian nationalist commentators used the warming up of relations between Kosovo and the Holy See to link it to threats to the property rights of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Kosovo.

A senior Ukrainian official complained that slow judicial progress and foreign lobbying were delaying the proposed ban of the Kyiv Metropolis, the

Putin is once again being attributed a fabricated speech, but it does not appear on official Russian government websites such as Kremlin.ru, which regularly publish his speeches, and even if he did deliver it, its contents are certainly inaccurate. The speech gives the false impression that Russia was never a colonial or slave-owning country and that Napoleon’s war against it was “a war of the West against Russia”

Senior officials have called for calm and respect for the law regarding church property

While the recognition of Kosovo’s statehood by the Holy See, a much-desired issue for many Kosovo politicians, remains a future objective, the Vatican has been improving relations at the religious and pastoral level. In 2018, Pope Francis elevated the apostolic administration of Prizren (a temporary structure) to the Diocese of Prizren-Prishtina.

The leader of the Ukrainian Catholic Church delivered a list of Ukrainian prisoners and missing persons to the Pope during an audience at the Vatican.

Both men are outspoken critics of Church’s growing support for the Serbian President

The independent Orthodox Church of Ukraine established a synodal commission for dialogue and issued an appeal to members of the Moscow-linked Ukrainian

The Russian Orthodox Church expressed concerns at government interference in the life of the Armenian Apostolic Church and attempts to “engineer a schism”

The head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church warned that Russian propaganda had infiltrated the Vatican and was being used for “information and

In the past year, little has changed in Ukraine’s battlefield, but Russian church manipulation of Orthodoxy has intensified significantly, especially in the Western Balkans, where North Macedonia’s church – the MOC (Ohrid Archdiocese) now serves as a

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, religious affiliation is tied closely to ethnic belonging

Supported by ten Bishops of the Armenian Church, they propose the removal of the current supreme head, the Catholicos, Karekin II

Kremlin intelligence claims – robustly denied by the Ecumenical Patriarchate – threaten to reopen old question of Montenegrin Orthodox Church’s independence.

Russia’s foreign intelligence service accused the Ecumenical Patriarchate of attempting to undermine the Russian Orthodox Church in Eastern Europe.

Russia is the “spiritual adversary of the Western civilisation”, the Patriarch of Moscow said as he marked Orthodox Christmas.

The coverage by Liturgija.mk is disproportionate with news and reporting affecting the religious developments in the temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories by Russia. Some of its reporting, effectively claims that Donetsk is part of Russia and can be seen as a direct effort to align public perception in North Macedonia with Russia's territorial claims. Liturgija.mk’s strong reliance on Moscow-friendly sources such as OrthoChristian, often through direct, unchecked translation into Macedonian

One of the vectors of Kremlin propaganda in the Western Balkans concerns labelling any ecumenical engagement as a revival of so-called “uniatism”, a concept implying attempts to bring Orthodoxy into communion with the Vatican. Moscow considers such