While the Russian authorities claim to protect Christian values, they are removing images of the cross, one of the main symbols of Christianity, everywhere. In Russia, this phenomenon has already been called the "cross fall", which refers to the times of religious persecution in

Yesterday, a Holy Mass for political prisoners in Belarus was held in Rome, bringing together worshippers & diplomats. Grateful to Ambassadors 🇱🇹 Sigita Maslauskaitė-Mažylienė & 🇵🇱 Adam Kwiatkowski for their initiative & support. Thank you to everyone who joined this powerful act of solidarity!

Video from Warsaw consultation on Conf of European Churches’s project “Pathways to Peace”. See link at quoted tweet.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has spoken out against the Vatican being a host for negotiations on the war with Ukraine. “Many people are fantasizing about when & where it [the meeting of representatives of 🇷🇺Russia & 🇺🇦Ukraine] will take place. We don’t have any ideas

Archbishop Savva (Tutunov), who was confirmed on May 15 as Chairman of the Synodal Missionary Department of the Russian Orthodox Church, announced the completion of fundraising for the purchase of drones for a Russian special forces unit. The amount raised was about 13 thousand

On May 24 and 25, Ukrainian Orthodox churches in Chernihiv and Donetsk region damaged by Russian shelling .

American Evangelical Pastor Mark Burns, who is a board member of Pastors for Trump, called Russian leader Vladimir Putin a war criminal and warned that Russia faces harsher consequences, as Trump grows impatient with Moscow’s refusal to end the war. He also noted that the

In our new investigative documentary, No God but Theirs, the Kyiv Independent’s War Crimes Investigations Unit uncovers the persecution of Ukrainian Christian communities in Melitopol — a city in eastern Ukraine now under Russian occupation. Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=zb7Tc5…

On May 30, in Luhansk, Ukraine, which is under the control of Russian troops, representatives of the occupation authorities came to the House of Prayer of the International Union of Baptist Churches, which fundamentally refuses state registration. “The local police officer,

On May 28, as a result of Russian shelling in Myrnohrad (Donetsk region, Ukraine), the Church of the Holy Supreme Apostles Peter and Paul of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church was seriously damaged. The shell hit the courtyard of the church. The shock wave knocked out all the

The 🇷🇺Russian Ministry of Justice has added the American Brigham Young University to the register of “undesirable” organizations. Brigham Young University (BYU) is a private research university in Provo, Utah, 🇺🇸United States. It was founded in 1875 by religious leader Brigham

The Ukrainian Orthodox Church clergy published an appeal on Facebook against the fact that Russia declares that it allegedly protects the UOC. “Speculating on this topic looks especially treacherous, given the fact that it was our Church that suffered the most among all

On Wednesday afternoon, Pope Leo XIV and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone, focusing especially on the war in Ukraine. "The Pope made an appeal for Russia to take a gesture that would favor peace, emphasizing the importance of dialogue to create positive contacts

Orthodox archimandrite Cyril Hovorun reported details of Russia’s demands to the US: “I learned from reliable sources that one of the demands that Putin conveyed to Trump was the expulsion of the Ecumenical Patriarchate from Istanbul.”

The Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia states that in Russia, “instead of the promulgation of Christian repentance and purification,” there is a return to a “false, God-opposing” of communism. As a result, Russia “risks being considered a dark stain amongst

On the night of June 7, the Russian army launched a drone attack on the Odessa region. The social infrastructure of the village of Ovidiopol, including the church building, came under fire.

On June 8, in the Ukrainian city of Krasnodon (Luhansk region), which is occupied by the Russian forces, the occupation authorities, the deputy prosecutor, and the police came to the worship service at the Baptist church, which denies state registration. Some believers were

Russian pro-war Telegram channels published a video from Sudzha in the Kursk region of Russia, where there are no Ukrainian forces. The video shows a fighter from the Russian Muslim unit "Akhmat" firing a grenade launcher at a half-destroyed building. It’s seen that behind the