2 June 2014, 10:54 | Interview | 

Pastor Sergey Demidovich “Maidan in Kiev was a Revolution of dignity. And the events in the Donbas is a proletarian revolution”

Serhiy Demidovich, pastor of the Church "Good news” in Slavyansk city on the situation in his native city, reconsidering his own Christian position, challenges to the evangelical churches and relations with Russian protestants brought about by recent events. Because of his professional activities he had to leave Sloviansk.

28 May 2014, 08:11 | Andrew Sorokowski's column |  | 

Is it Possible to Cooperate with Russians?

If religion combines naturally with nationalism, can there be any basis for trans-national religious solidarity?

26 May 2014, 11:29 | Tetiana Derkach's column | 

Hybrid War of the ROC

There is probable no one who has not asked himself in the past six months why the Patriarch keeps silent. The war goes on in his ‘subordinate’ canonical territory unleashed by the hands of his ‘subordinate’ president, the union with whom is to save Russia, and the Patriarch either sews up his mouth, or talks idly about “Peace to the world! War to the war”.

17 May 2014, 17:00 | Analysis | 

Ukrainian Orthodoxy in Toronto: A Model for Dialogue, A Symbol of Courage

Following the academic tradition, this symposium featured several panels consisting of lectures and responses on core issues in the Ukrainian Orthodox milieu.

9 May 2014, 12:27 | Interview | 

Father Vitaliy Eismont About Uoc (Mp): I Felt Myself Deceived By My Own Church

5 May 2014, 14:19 | Analysis | 

Crypto-Nazism and Support for Russia

Most of what I have observed is driven, I suspect, by the fact that so much of the good that happened on Maidan has been lost to the diabolical spin of Russian propagandists.

2 May 2014, 16:12 | Comments | 

Myroslav Marynovych: It Is Still Not Too Late For Patrirch Kirill To Stop The “Sheep” From His Flock On The Territory Of Ukraine

The whole world in one voice is talking about Russia’s aggression towards Ukraine, yet the Patriarch does not see or perceive this.

30 April 2014, 14:26 | Comments | 

Mykhaylo Cherenkov: A Real Catastrophe Has Occurred In Relations Between Russian And Ukrainian Christians

As it became evident, apparently the Russian Christians trust the state propaganda much more than they trust their brothers – Ukrainians who could tell them the truth from the first sources, without a tainted telephone, and an even more tainted television.

29 April 2014, 12:15 | Open theme | 

EuroMaidan, WWII Parallels, and ‘Feelings from the Past’

These past few months, as I experienced a revolution and war for Ukraine’s freedom and integrity, I have often thought of my ancestors and how they must have felt during WWII (and earlier liberation movements) and the partisan struggle to liberate Ukraine from totalitarian powers.

22 April 2014, 10:50 | Open theme | 

Should Ukraine Become a Member of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation?

In the context of the next wave of separatism in Donbas, some events concerning Crimea have occurred without much notice. Actually, some analysts believe that Russia has provoked the situation in eastern Ukraine specifically to draw attention away not only from the occupation of Crimea, but also from the huge economic and social problems, which have emerged on the peninsula.

22 April 2014, 09:52 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

Grassroots Resistance

If townspeople, craftsmen, artists, and small business owners can organize themselves in defense of their folk culture, then they can do the same to defend their religion. For the same forces that destroy local cultures also annihilate local spiritual traditions and ways of life.

18 April 2014, 14:11 | Open theme | 

A response to metropolitan Hilarion interview to National Catholic Register

It always bears repeating that Metropolitan Hilarion is not speaking objectively, or in a spirit of dialogue.

1 April 2014, 11:57 | Comments | 

UN Mother Language Day and Taras Shevchenko

Taras Shevchenko, the champion of the Ukrainian language, self-determination of people, human rights and social justice was honored at the United Nations March 27, 2014.

25 March 2014, 13:02 | Open theme | 

When a Brother Doesn’t Hear His Brother: Post-Maidan Problems in Relations between Ukrainian and Russian Protestants

The sociopolitical events in Ukraine are having practical consequences not only in politics but also in the spiritual realm. In particular, a very strange relationship has developed between Russian Protestants and their Ukrainian brothers.

20 March 2014, 15:42 | Interview | 

Father Mykola Kvych: ‘I was accused of sponsoring the Ukrainian Navy’

The last two days the faithful of our church and the citizens of Ukraine who follow events in Crimea eagerly awaited news of Father Mykola Kvych – a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest and a military chaplain

18 March 2014, 10:36 | James Siemens' column

Ukraine’s Struggle: Where Heaven and Earth Have Met

As a priest living in a country where the biggest political threat is socially-enervating legislation, and where one of the biggest religious challenges may be overcoming the sheepishness that can accompany wearing a cassock in public, the testimony of faith in the midst of the Ukrainian crisis is simultaneously shaming and uplifting

18 March 2014, 10:10 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

A Dangerous Fiction

What does Russia want? This has been the subject of much speculation in the Western press. If we know what Russia really wants, so goes the reasoning, then we can guess what it will do.

3 March 2014, 20:41 | Analysis | 

Ukrainian Muslims and Maidan

Judging from this, the situation in the country will remain tense for a long time, in the first place, because of the aggressive actions of its northern neighbor. But even in this difficult time, the Ukrainian people are aware that Muslims are a part of society that is truely contributing to the building of a free and democratic state.

19 February 2014, 14:43 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

Blessing The Billy-Clubs

For a Ukrainian churchman, the blessing of arms for the defense of the people is a noble precedent. But Archpriest Aleksei Yefimov’s fondnesss for Soviet Russian mythology entails a hostility to legitimate Ukrainian aspirations, which a true pastor would support.