http://risu.org.ua/en/indexhttp://risu.org.ua/php_uploads/images/sitecontent/ContentFileLogo_EN_5.gifhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index16984http://risu.org.ua/en/index/monitoring/society_digest/38284/Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:03:13 +0300The first thing Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich did after his February 25 inauguration was delete the link to the Holodomor on the president’s official Web site.http://risu.org.ua/en/index/monitoring/society_digest/38268/Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:08:47 +0300Presidents of five countries invited to attend festivities marking the 450th anniversary of this unique manuscript.http://risu.org.ua/en/index/monitoring/society_digest/38267/Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:59:36 +0300Why does all talk about the “Russian world” begins with toasting Holy Rus’ and ends with mourning Ukraine and Belarushttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/monitoring/society_digest/38265/Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:50:36 +0300An unknown attempt to abolish the anathema on the Ukrainian hetmanhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/orthodox/moscow_patriarchy/38261/Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:03:54 +0300The first meeting of the winter session of the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church was held on October 6. The members thanked the Ukrainian authorities and bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church for the visit of Patriarch Kirill in the summer and stressed the importance of "further efforts aimed to strengthen church unity and overcome destructive schisms."http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/culture/religious_media_and_Internet/38251/Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:14:44 +0300The World Congress of the Catholic Press is being held in Rome. The participants discuss the place of the printed media in the world, the threats and possibilities of the Internet, and how to bring the word of truth to modern audiences. The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is represented at the congress by the head of the Information Department of UGCC, Fr. Ihor Yatsiv and a journalist, Dmytro Krykun.http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/protestants/world_of_protestantism/38248/Wed, 06 Oct 2010 11:56:37 +0300The newly created exhibition "Protestantism in Independent Ukraine" deals with the history of the Protestant movement in the world and in Ukraine.http://risu.org.ua/en/index/monitoring/religious_digest/38238/Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:18:18 +0300Several Krishna worshipping families have lived in the former Raduga pioneer camp in the Dnipropetrovsk oblast for five years now. These people gave up all comforts and amenities of civilization, settled in the thick of the woods and began living according to their own laws, to be more precise, according to the laws of their religion.http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/social_questioning/38233/Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:03:08 +0300According to a sociological poll conducted in September, 2010 by the sociological group ”Rating,” 41% of the citizen feel curtailing of the freedom of speech in the country after the presidential elections.http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/ukraine_and_world/ukrainians_outside_of_Ukraine/38232/Tue, 05 Oct 2010 15:55:32 +0300Pope John ХХIII established three exarchates for Ukrainians in the Western Europe, in Germany, France and England. The Apostolic Exarchate for France was established on 22 July, 1960.http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/land_and_property_problems/38220/Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:55:13 +0300Members of an Inter-confessional Crimean Council "Peace is a gift of God" addressed Ukraine's President with a request to assist in the construction of the central mosque in Simferopol.http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/ukraine_and_world/international_relations/38218/Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:25:07 +0300On October 4, the heads of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate and Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate held meetings with Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Austria in Ukraine, Wolf Dietrich Heim.http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/culture/religious_media_and_Internet/38214/Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:45:14 +0300From October 7 to 9, in Kyiv, the Third Festival of the Orthodox Mass Media will be held, where the participants will have an opportunity to present the publications of their eparchies.http://risu.org.ua/en/index/monitoring/society_digest/38215/Tue, 05 Oct 2010 11:34:57 +0300Nature and cold water — this is pretty much all the students of the Dragon-Tiger School in Ukraine’s Crimea need to fight drug addiction. And the results are impressive.http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/religion_and_society/38198/Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:21:51 +0300From September 30 to October 3, 2010, an annual plenary session of the Council of the Bishops' Conferences of Europe was held. The session was attended by Secretary of the Synod of Bishops of the UGCC, head of the administration of the Patriarchal Curia, Bishop Bohdan (Dziurakh).http://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/authors_columns/vyelenskyi_column/38181/Mon, 04 Oct 2010 11:15:40 +0300The world’s great religions are calling for peace and condemn violence, but in modern encyclopedias and dictionaries, in studies by the famous expert in conflictology David Rapoport, “religion and peace” is mentioned about five times less than “religion and war.”http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/state/legislation/38184/Mon, 04 Oct 2010 11:15:09 +0300Heads of Evangelical Churches of Ukraine decided to address the leadership of the state to voice the position of the Churches in the area of state-church relations.http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/temples_church_property/38172/Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:55:32 +0300Head of the Center of Military Chaplaincy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Father Stephen Sus during a web conference on RISU spoke about plans for the Church of Holy Apostles Peter and Paul.http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/land_and_property_problems/38170/Fri, 01 Oct 2010 12:44:18 +0300The Roman Catholic community of Dnipropetrovsk resumed the prayer vigils in front of the city’s Cathedral of St. Joseph. The Roman Catholics fear a raider attack against the church as its registration by the Bureau of Technical Inventory is still blocked despite the fact that it was passed to the Roman Catholic community more than a year ago.http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/ukraine_and_world/ukrainians_outside_of_Ukraine/38161/Fri, 01 Oct 2010 10:52:39 +0300Archbishop of Winnipeg and Metropolitan of Canada addressed his flock to explain why the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada did not accept the offer from the Archdiocese of Canada of the Orthodox Church in America to make available to his Church the Relics of the Holy Great Prince Volodymyr of Kyiv.