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Cars drive along Tverskaya Street near the towers of the State Historical Museum and the Kremlin in central Moscow Feb. 13, 2025. Archbishop Paul R. Gallagher, the Vatican foreign minister, arrived in Moscow Aug. 24, 2026, for a four-day visit to Russia, the Vatican's Secretariat of State announced. (OSV News photo/Maxim Shemetov, Reuters)

Vatican diplomat's Russia trip focuses on Ukraine peace prospects

Ishmael Adibuah|Aug 25, 2026|2 Min Read

Metropolitan Archbishop A. Gudziak of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia inspects a residential building Sept. 8, 2024, that was destroyed by Russian glide bombs in Kharkiv, Ukraine, located within 30 miles of the frontline of Russia's 11-year invasion of that nation. (OSV News photo/Gina Christian)

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Religious freedom report: Russia guilty of ‘severe’ violations against religious minorities

Tyler Arnold|Jul 2, 2025|4 Min Read

Russia

The patriarch and Ukraine

Russell Shaw|Jun 3, 2024|3 Min Read

Moscow

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Russian, Ukrainian church leaders react to Moscow terror attack

Jonathan Luxmoore|Mar 23, 2024|5 Min Read

Pope Francis meets with Ivan Soltanovsky, the new Russian ambassador to the Holy See, at the Vatican Sept. 18, 2023. (CNS/Vatican Media)

Vatican disputes report Pope Francis will travel to Russia to meet Putin

Cindy Wooden|Mar 20, 2024|2 Min Read

Navalny

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Russian Catholics stage 'quiet commemorations' for deceased dissident Navalny

Jonathan Luxmoore|Feb 20, 2024|7 Min Read

Putin

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As Vatican, others urge disarmament, Russia reportedly working on space-based nuclear weapon

Kate Scanlon|Feb 16, 2024|4 Min Read

A Ukrainian soldier picks up unexploded parts of a cluster bomb left after Russia's invasion near the village of Motyzhyn, Ukraine, April 10, 2022. In Geneva, during a Sept. 11-14, 2023, meeting. a Holy See delegation urged nations that have not already done so to sign on to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which "prohibits under any circumstances the use, development, production, acquisition, stockpiling and transfer of cluster munitions." (OSV News/Mykola Tymchenko, Reuters)

Holy See urges more nations to sign treaty banning cluster munitions

Julie Asher|Sep 12, 2023|4 Min Read

Pope Francis' recent remarks have led to some opposition from American Catholics as well as the Ukraine. (CNS/Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network)

Pope’s criticism of (some) Americans amounts to an indirect tribute

John L. Allen Jr.|Sep 1, 2023|5 Min Read

Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulates Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill of Moscow on the day of the 11th anniversary of his enthronement, in Moscow in this Feb. 1, 2020, file photo.(CNS/Sputnik/Alexei Druzhinin/Kremlin via Reuters)

Russian Orthodox Church shows itself to be Putin’s most reliable ally

John L. Allen Jr.|Jul 5, 2023|5 Min Read

Russia-Ukraine War

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Following Wagner Group's now-halted march on Moscow, bishop sees 'hope and danger' ahead for Ukraine

Jonathan Luxmoore|Jun 26, 2023|5 Min Read

Russia-Ukraine War

A secret papal mission to end a Russian war? It’s happened before

John L. Allen Jr.|May 5, 2023|6 Min Read

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