Pope Leo XIV will meet with Metropolitan Anthony of Volokolamsk, head of external relations for the Russian Orthodox Church, on July 26, the Italian news agency ANSA reported. The meeting will be Pope ...

Pope Leo met with Metropolitan Anthony, a senior cleric of the Russian Orthodox Church, on July 26 to discuss the ongoing war in Ukraine. This audience marked a potential effort to alleviate the ...

Pope Leo XIV met with a top Russian Orthodox cleric, the first such visit from Moscow since the papal election, and one that comes amid strained relations with Rome due to Russia's ongoing war in ...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Leo discussed the war in Ukraine on Saturday with Metropolitan Anthony, a senior cleric in the Russian Orthodox Church, in a possible effort to ease ties between the churches ...

COMMENTARY: As Russian troops ravaged Ukraine, Patriarch Kirill called the invasion ‘a metaphysical battle against the forces ...

London (CNN)It’s a meeting nearly a millennium in the making. Pope Francis will meet the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kyril, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, a Vatican spokesman, ...

As Pope Leo XIV highlights the need for interreligious dialogue and diplomacy, religious liberty in Russia continues to decline, with the US International Religious Freedom Commission citing that ...

Pope Leo XIV held a first meeting on Saturday with a senior Russian Orthodox cleric at the Vatican since becoming the head of the Catholic church earlier this year, the Holy See said without giving ...

This morning Leo XIV received at the Apostolic Palace a group of Russian Catholics in Rome for their Jubilee pilgrimage. He ...

Ivan Soltanovsky also indicated that there is currently no information regarding future engagements or the prospect of a new meeting between the respective primates THE VATICAN, September 25. /TASS/.

Pope John Paul II plans to return a 16th century icon to Russia to try to help thaw frosty relations between the Vatican and the Russian Orthodox Church, his spokesman said. The Kazan Madonna, a ...