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100 days of the prayer tent in Donetsk | 13 June 2014, 11:43 |
13 June 2014, 11:43
100 days of the prayer tent in Donetsk

29 May 2014, 15:52 | Kaleidoscope | |
Brodsky Synagogue at the heart of the Ukrainian capital
Located in the city center, the ancient synagogue named Lazar Brodsky and the former theater attracts a lot of views, but no one dares to enter it. However, the members of the Jewish community are ready to answer all the guests’ questions. Thus, recently a delegation of the Youth Association of Religious Studies has visited it to learn more about the monument of art.
12 May 2014, 13:13 | Kaleidoscope | |
Chernivtsi Restores the Pieta
Already in a year a statue of the Mother of God holding Her Son in her arms will rise in the central square of the capital of Bukovyna in honor and eternal memory of the Heavenly Hundred.

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”.
24 May 2014, 11:52 | Comments |
St. John Paul Ii And Ukraine-Holy See Relations
Concerning the Holy See’s response to the Maidan movement, the Ambassador stressed the Ukrainian government’s appreciation of the “wise and balanced position of the Holy See regarding these events” and added that she is grateful for Pope Francis’s continued prayers and gestures of “solidarity with the Ukrainian people.”
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.

23 November 2011, 17:09 | Religious studies |
FOUR ISLAMIC LIONS ON THE CRIMEAN SAVANNA
A Review of Trends in Contemporary Islam in the Crimea

Myroslav Marynovych and Mustafa Cemilev honoured in the US capital | 16 June 2014, 10:31 | International relations |
100 days of the prayer tent in Donetsk | 13 June 2014, 11:43 | National religious question |
Arson attempt at Mosque in Simferopol | 13 June 2014, 11:40 | Religious intolerance and vandalism |
Prayer breakfast at the Ukrainian parliament | 11 June 2014, 13:24 | Church-state relations |
Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishops: 'Ukraine is on Pilgrimage - Thank You for Walking With Us' | 10 June 2014, 19:09 | UGCC |
Papal envoy to commemorate post-Soviet freedom of Greek Catholics in Ukraine | 10 June 2014, 11:10 | Greece-catholic eparche of Mukachevo |
Christians around the world celebrate today Pentecost | 8 June 2014, 09:10 | Religious holidays and traditions |
Poroshenko sworn in as president | 7 June 2014, 11:26 | National religious question |
Prayer for Peace on June 8 | 6 June 2014, 14:46 | Vatican |
15,000 flee Donetsk - regional authorities | 4 June 2014, 19:16 | Extraordinary situations |
Crimean Tatar Leader was granted the Solidarity Prize in Warsaw | 4 June 2014, 18:52 | National religious question |
Secretary of State of the Holy See: Kyiv Is Not Entering but Returning to Europe | 3 June 2014, 18:03 | Vatican |
All-Ukrainian Council of Churches Wish New President Wisdom in Public Affairs and Peace-Building | 3 June 2014, 17:34 | National religious question |
Metropolitan Olexander (Drabynko): "Orthodox Militia of Donbass" has "nothing in common" with the Orthodox faith | 2 June 2014, 12:53 | Inter-Orthodox relations |
Pope Francis prays for peace in Ukraine | 2 June 2014, 11:23 | Vatican |
Church of Kyiv Patriarchate attacked in Crimea | 1 June 2014, 14:56 | Religion and policy |
UGCC bishop: 'If a new government ensures freedom of speech and religion, it will meet democratic criteria' | 30 May 2014, 17:45 | UGCC |
Patriarch Kirill accuses Ukrainian Greek-Catholics of Russophobia | 29 May 2014, 10:33 | Religion and policy |
Polish priest kidnapped in eastern Ukraine freed a day after he was reported missing | 28 May 2014, 13:27 | Scandals, crime |
Catholic priest kidnapped in Donetsk | 28 May 2014, 10:38 | Scandals, crime |
A former Mennonite church building is being restored and transformed into a Greek Catholic church. | 27 May 2014, 16:17 | UGCC |
New auxiliary bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk | 27 May 2014, 14:46 | UGCC |
Orthodox priest among detained terrorists in Luhansk region | 26 May 2014, 14:23 | Scandals, crime |
Common Declaration signed by Pope Francis and the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew | 26 May 2014, 11:52 | World news |
Prayer Tent in Donetsk Attacked | 23 May 2014, 17:32 | Religious intolerance and vandalism |
Orthodox patriarch does not represent us in meeting Pope, says metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev | 23 May 2014, 16:52 | Moscow Patriarchy |
Ukrainian military servicemen meet with Pope Francis | 22 May 2014, 16:20 | Religious ceremonies and pilgrimage |
UOC-MP confirms that Yanukovich’s regime sought to remove Metropolitan Volodymyr from Primate’s post | 22 May 2014, 12:17 | Scandals, crime |
Turchynov to meet Ukrainian religious leaders tomorrow | 21 May 2014, 17:42 | AUCCRO, inter-confessional councils |
Joseph Zisels: The Level of Anti-Semitism in Ukraine is Low and Gradually Decreasing | 21 May 2014, 17:00 | Religion and society |
General Prosecutor’s Office of Ukraine started investigation into unlawful pressure on UOC-MP Metropolitan Volodymyr by Yanukovych and Zacharchenko | 21 May 2014, 13:30 | Church-state relations
Terrorists in Sloviansk Free Local Evangelical Bishop | 20 May 2014, 15:37 | Scandals, crime |
Ukraine proclaims May 18 as Day of Crimean Tatars' Rights | 17 May 2014, 14:24 | Islam |
Berel Rodal: Russian propaganda uses Jewish question as a weapon of war | 17 May 2014, 13:05 | National religious question
Conference “Ukraine: Thinking together” started in Kyiv | 17 May 2014, 11:22 | Community |
Ukrainian Foreign Ministry denies banning entry to Metropolitan Hilarion | 15 May 2014, 13:39 | Moscow Patriarchy
Ukrainians become more religious | 15 May 2014, 11:08 | Social questioning |
Lviv students hosted more than a thousand students from Eastern Ukraine | 14 May 2014, 17:54 | Religion and society |
Ukrainian language edition of Lily Hyde's book ‘Dream Land’ | 13 May 2014, 19:20 | Religion and society |
Ecumenical Patriarch: 'Ukraine is in every beat of our heart' | 13 May 2014, 18:45 | Ecumenical Patriarchate |

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17 June 2014, 12:09 |
Overcoming the dangerous Soviet Communist heritage that is blossoming in the form of Putinism requires nothing less than the solidarity of the whole world.
3 June 2014, 15:03 |
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Що робити, коли почуваєшся знесиленим?
14 May 2014, 15:59 |
Days of Anna Yaroslavna in France on May 17-18, 2014

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17 June 2014, 14:41 | Society-digest |
The Ecumenical Laboratory of Ukraine
A conversation with His Beatitude Lubomyr Cardinal Husar about the Maidan movement and relationships between Catholics and Orthodox
16 June 2014, 17:48 | Society-digest |
Ukrainian-Canadians hope for peace in homeland
16 June 2014, 17:15 | Society-digest
Rescuing the Yiddish Ukraine
16 June 2014, 13:45 | Society-digest |
Ukraine's united, divided churches
Churches have responded to Ukraine's crisis with prayers for peace and calls for reconciliation. The Ukrainian revolution showed a rare sign of unity among the country's religious groups.
12 June 2014, 13:39 | Society-digest |
Lessons from the Maidan
So Ukraine remains, today, a country in deep distress, politically and economically. But that was true in October 2013. What is different, today, is that Ukraine has undergone something like a revolution of conscience: what Greek Catholic archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk recently described as “an extended, inspired pilgrimage from fear and fraud to dignity and integrity.”

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