Members of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine light candles on an altar in May 2023. (Credit: The Kyiv Metropolitanate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.) Listen ROME – In a decision seen as an act of ...

Church bells around the world will toll in unison Sunday to mark the third anniversary of the Ukraine-Russia war. Among those church bells chiming: the bells of St. Peter and St. Paul Ukrainian ...

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CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A candlelight vigil will be held Friday to mark the third anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The event, organized by the sister city partnership between Cincinnati and ...

ANTALYA, Turkey (AP) — Standing in an old Orthodox church in Antalya with a Bible in one hand and a candle in the other, the Rev. Ioann Koval led one of his first services in Turkey after Russian ...

Despite the threat of Russian bombardment, Orthodox believers in Ukraine gathered to celebrate Pascha, the high point of the church year. On April 16, a few minutes after midnight, they quietly left ...