An imprisoned Ukrainian Orthodox Church priest has been sent to a hard labor camp in Russia to serve a 14-year sentence on ...

The intended target, 66-year-old Tikhon Shevkunov, is widely reported in Russian media as Putin’s “confessor.” While the ...

TWO priests have been held on suspicion of plotting the assassination of Vladimir Putin’s personal confessor. The pair were said to have been recruited by Ukraine to kill Bishop Tikhon Shev­kunov, ...

The Feb. 24 anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine was an opportunity to offer "ever more fervent prayers for peace," ...

Russia seriously violates religious freedom in the land it illegally occupies in Ukraine, Forum 18 said in a new report.

Clerics Denis Popovich, 27, and Nikita Ivankovich, 28, have been held by the Russian FSB security service and face life in prison if found guilty of terrorism charges ...

Shevkunov, who has been described in Russian media reports for years as "Putin's confessor" - something he has neither ...

The Russian Orthodox Church in Lithuania deliberately hides its affiliation to the Moscow Patriarchate, an Orthodox cleric ...

First Vice-President of Azerbaijan, President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, Mehriban Aliyeva, along with her daughters, ...

But Orthodox priests Denis Popovich ... Pro-war Tikhon, the senior Russian Orthodox church figure in occupied Crimea, has likened Putin to Russian emperor Peter the Great. His secretary Popovich ...