Religion has had a huge impact on shaping the national consciousness of Ukraine, and faith continues to be a driving force in Ukrainian politics. Today’s power struggles among the various churches ...

Centuries of church schisms show that if there's a doctrine to be fought over, there's a good chance Christians will fight ...

MOSCOW, July 5. /TASS/. The preservation of Byzantine mosaics in Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia will be brought into question if the historical monument, which is now a museum, is turned into a mosque, ...

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Pope Leo XIV is set to embark on his first trip abroad with a visit to Turkey, marking a key event in Catholic and Orthodox ...

Bogotá (AsiaNews/Agencies) – Byzantine chant (see video below) is an ancient tradition of liturgical music, and now one of the 42 cultural traditions and practices, 15 from Asia, added to the ...

Even those who might concede that Russian Orthodoxy developed as a result of the conversion of Kiev would point out that the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, certainly since the fifteenth century—was ...

Archaeologists uncovered a 12th-century Byzantine church built over a Roman settlement near Ahtopol on the Black Sea coast of ...