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/47860/Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:21:30 +0300The first impression is difficult to forget. In the case of Berdychiv, a mid-sized city in Zhytomyr Oblast some 150 kilometers southwest of Kyiv, the first impression was about booking a local hotel. Berdychiv, as it appeared, was all about perseverance.Society-digesthttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/orthodox/uoc/47856/Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:50:00 +0300Ukraine’s President, Viktor Yanukovych greeted Metropolitan Lazar (Shvets) of Simferopol and Crimea of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate on occasion of his birthday.UOC (MP)http://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/culture/inheritance/47857/Mon, 23 Apr 2012 12:47:15 +0300YUNESCO is ready to include the Pochaiv Monastery in the list of the World Heritage. According to the foreign experts, to do that it is necessary that the Ukrainian government should initiate the process officially.Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritancehttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/temples_church_property/47851/Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:10:20 +0300The Odesa City Council will sell the building of the Church of All Saints located at 33 Akademika Hlushka Street to the Odesa Eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate at a symbolic price of 1.2 UAH.Temples, church propertyhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/confessional/orthodox_relations/47850/Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:53:09 +0300On 19 April, the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada (Constantinople Patriarchate), Metropolitan Yurii sent out an address prohibiting the members of his Church to participate in any events connected with the visit of Patriarch Filaret of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate to Canada.Inter-Orthodox relationshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/orthodox/uoc/47847/Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:06:05 +0300Metropolitan Volodymyr of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) on 22 April led a liturgy in the Church of St. Antony and Theodosius of the Kyiv Cave Monastery.UOC (MP)http://risu.org.ua/en/index/expert_thought/authors_columns/asorokowski_column/47845/Sun, 22 Apr 2012 11:09:41 +0300On Tuesday, April 10 – in the midst of the Eastern Christian Holy Week leading up to Easter – five members of the women’s group FEMEN suspended a seven-meter-long banner reading “Stop” from the belfry of Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv. The messagesignified their opposition to draft law No. 10170, which would overturn Ukraine’s rather permissive law on abortion and substitute a more restrictive one. The letter “t” in the English word “Stop” was written in the form of an Eastern Christian cross.Andrew Sorokowski's columnhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/catholics/ugcc/47843/Sat, 21 Apr 2012 11:05:04 +0300According to Cardinal Lubomyr (Husar), politics should be put aside from religion.UGCChttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/religion_and_policy/47831/Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:19:10 +0300Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych has reviewed previous views on church-state relations and has returned to the policy pursued by his predecessors. This opinion was expressed by experts.Religion and policyhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/state/legislation/47829/Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:15:00 +0300Ukrainian deputies defined categories of persons who cannot be interrogated as witnesses with regard to information received by them in the process of fulfillment of their professional responsibilities.Legislationhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/monitoring/society_digest/47825/Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:01:48 +0300Twenty years ago, the West tried to build civil society in post-Soviet Ukraine. Now 11 Ukrainian intellectuals have taken the matter into their own hands, through the “1st December” initiative (Pershoho Hrudnya). Launched in December 2011, its name is a reference to Ukraine's 1991 referendum on independenceSociety-digesthttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/scandals/47824/Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:55:12 +0300Pastor of the Embassy of God, Sunday Adelaja, who is accused of organizing a criminal group, is not permitted to leave Ukraine before the completion of the investigation in the matter of Kings Capital Ltd.Scandals, crimehttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/state/church_state_relations/47822/Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:50:05 +0300This was discussed at the session of the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations (AUCCRO) held on April 18 in the Spiritual Treasures of Ukraine Museum under the chairmanship of the head of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Mefodii.Church-state relationshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/protestants/adventist/47820/Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:53:00 +0300The National Council on Television and Radio Broadcast refused to grant a license to “Hope TV Channel” Ltd for satellite broadcast.Adventistshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/protestants/evangelical_christians_baptists/47816/Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:26:13 +0300From August 16 to 19, 2012, in Lviv, the 4th Congress of Evangelical Christians Baptists of Ukraine will be held.Evangelical Christian Baptistshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/culture/religious_holidays/47807/Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:54:10 +0300On April 17, in the western Ukrainian city of Drohobych, the largest haiyvka (Easter folk dance) in Ukraine was organized by youth organizations.Religious holidays and traditionshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/culture/theology/47806/Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:47:04 +0300A graduation ceremony for students of the Eastern Ukrainian Bible Institute was held on April 8, in the Spiritual Center of the Eastern Conference of the Adventists Church in Donetsk.Theology and religious educationhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/protests/47803/Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:37:04 +0300Rector of the Uzhhorod Theological Academy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Archimandrite Viktor (Bed) addressed the Ukrainian authorities with a call to protect the educational institution from raiders.Protests and conflictshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/confessional/orthodox_relations/47792/Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:09:00 +0300Patriarch Filaret of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate prays for the clergy and faithful of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate and would like to meet with Metropolitan Volodymyr.Inter-Orthodox relationshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/culture/religious_holidays/47787/Tue, 17 Apr 2012 09:43:05 +0300According to a report of the Department on Public Relations of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, nearly 14 million Ukrainian citizens came to have their Easter bread consecrated in approximately 16 thousand churches.Religious holidays and traditions