Dr Andreja Bogdanovski

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.

Pope Leo XIV urges everyone to ‘overcome the scandal of the divisions that unfortunately still exist’

Negotiations ‘will be an uphill battle’, Vatican Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin, says

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan delivers keynote address in Yerevan last Friday, against background of a sharp decline in church-state relations in recent months

The Orthodox Church of Moldova, affiliated with the Russian Orthodox Church, defrocked 11 priests who switched jurisdiction to the smaller Metropolis of

In his first foreign trip, Pope Leo is travelling to Turkey to celebrate the 1700th anniversary of the Nicaean Council with Orthodox Church leaders. It's supposed to be a powerful demonstration of Christian unity, but that message could be in jeopardy on the Orthodox side, as Andreja Bogdanovski reports

Ukrainian authorities argue that the Church remains tied to the Moscow Patriarchate

Churches in southeast Europe are under growing pressure to address the theological and practical issues raised by the use of artificial intelligence in religion.

Patriarchs Daniel and Bartholomew join in opening ceremony

A former sub-deacon of Metropolitan Hilarion alleged that the Russian Orthodox prelate acted as an intermediary between Moscow and Hungary’s political elite.

App was scrutinised by reporters and users over the scope of personal information requested, including highly sensitive data

Some of the acts they are alleged to have committed include placing pigs’ heads outside several mosques in Paris and throwing green paint over a Holocaust memorial

Appointment follows a period of tension for St Catherine’s Monastery, Mount Sinai

The Ukrainian security services have opened 180 criminal cases against clergy associated with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) since the start of the

US President Donald Ttump raised the reopening of the Greek Orthodox theological school in Halki during a meeting with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan

Move is ‘an assault’, says Middle East Council of Churches

Blagoje Pantelic and Vukašin Milicevic were summoned by the archbishopric of Belgrade & Karlovci

Guaranteeing the rights of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the official use of the Russian language emerged as one of Russia’s President Vladimir Putin’s