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Department for Religions and Nationalities strongly opposes visit of Patriarch Kirill to Ukraine | 19 June 2014, 10:50 |
19 June 2014, 10:50
Department for Religions and Nationalities strongly opposes visit of Patriarch Kirill to Ukraine
Patriarch Filaret calls on Patriarch Kirill to 'tell the truth' and stop Putin from causing bloodshed | 18 June 2014, 15:22 |
18 June 2014, 15:22
Patriarch Filaret calls on Patriarch Kirill to 'tell the truth' and stop Putin from causing bloodshed

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.

26 June 2014, 08:58 | Andrew Sorokowski's column |
Hilarious — even Chaplinesque
In Metropolitan Hilarion’s view, the crisis in Ukraine, which in fact consists of a Russian invasion, is being exacerbated by the Greek-Catholic Church. Evidently, standing by the people, seeking to mediate, offering pastoral aid, and comforting the wounded and dying serve only to “make the crisis worse.”
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.”

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

Terrorists took prisoner a Protestant pastor from Druzhkivka | 26 June 2014, 16:02 | Scandals, crime |
Metropolitan Onufriy (Berezovsky) complained to Poroshenko about vandals and journalists | 26 June 2014, 15:36 | Church-state relations |
Deputy director of Islamic Madrassah near Simferopol released | 26 June 2014, 14:53 | Islam |
Kyiv Patriarchate urges UOC-MP to refuse from participation in Slavic Unity Festival | 26 June 2014, 13:16 | International relations |
An exhibition dedicated to Pope John Paul II opens in Lviv | 26 June 2014, 12:31 | RCC in Ukraine |
Donetsk terrorists seized Christian rehabilitation center | 25 June 2014, 16:26 | Religion and policy |
Mufti of Poland comes to annexed the Crimea to discuss problems of Muslims | 25 June 2014, 12:02 | Islam |
V. Reverend President of UCU Borys (Gudziak) prays for Putin’s conversion | 25 June 2014, 11:09 | Religion and policy | |
Well-doers of the Eastern Churches pray in the Vatican for peace in Ukraine | 25 June 2014, 10:04 | Vatican |
Masked men abduct deputy director of Crimean Madrassah after search | 24 June 2014, 14:18 | Religion and policy |
A temple for different confessions dedicated to Heavenly Hundred to be built in Zhytomyr | 24 June 2014, 12:43 | Religion and society |
Terrorists seize church in Shaktarsk and threaten to shoot its pastor | 24 June 2014, 11:00 | Scandals, crime |
Representatives of major religions support peaceful initiatives of President Poroshenko | 24 June 2014, 10:30 | International relations |
Metropolitan Volodymyr’s condition is serious but stable | 24 June 2014, 09:50 | UOC (MP) |
Metropolitan Volodymyr is suffering internal hemorrhage | 23 June 2014, 10:29 | UOC (MP) |
UOC-MP Disavowed ‘Political Orthodoxy’ and Separatists in Kyiv Caves Monastery | 23 June 2014, 08:07 | Religion and policy |
General Secretaries of Episcopal Conferences of Europe discussed the situation in Ukraine | 22 June 2014, 16:42 | International relations |
UOC-KP warned of possible provocations by supporters of "political orthodoxy" | 22 June 2014, 10:40 | Religion and policy |
We are not your enemies, we are your brothers in Christ, says UGCC head to Russian Orthodox | 22 June 2014, 10:14 | National religious question |
Ukrainian Catholic church in Western Sydney desecrated with swastika graffiti | 21 June 2014, 21:03 | Scandals, crime |
A number of UOC-MP clergymen pack their bags to leave for Moscow | 20 June 2014, 14:19 | National religious question |
ROC dislikes that Patriarch Kirill is not welcome in Ukraine | 20 June 2014, 10:11 | International relations |
UGCC military chaplains provide spiritual care to Antiterrorism Operation participants | 20 June 2014, 09:52 | National religious question |
UOC-MP Synod set a course for rapprochement with Moscow - UOC KP ARCHBISHOP | 19 June 2014, 19:40 | National religious question |
UOC (MP) calls information on arrival of Patriarch Kirill 'gossip' | 19 June 2014, 16:28 | Church-state relations |
UOC Synod urges Ukrainians to preserve unified Ukraine, and call on clergy to avoid politics | 19 June 2014, 13:37 | National religious question |
UOC (MP) asks President to stop bloodshed in the East | 19 June 2014, 13:16 | National religious question |
Department for Religions and Nationalities strongly opposes visit of Patriarch Kirill to Ukraine | 19 June 2014, 10:50 | International relations |
Patriarch Filaret calls on Patriarch Kirill to 'tell the truth' and stop Putin from causing bloodshed | 18 June 2014, 15:22 | Religion and policy |
Kurt Lewin, saved by Metropolitan Andriy Sheptytskyy, died | 18 June 2014, 15:18 | UGCC |
Dalai Lama prays for Ukraine and plans to come | 18 June 2014, 14:38 | Buddhism |
Donetsk terrorists seized Christian rehabilitation center and took hostage its patients | 18 June 2014, 14:19 | Scandals, crime |
Myroslav Marynovych and Mustafa Dzemilev honoured in 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 |

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27 June 2014, 14:30 | Society-digest |
CRIMEA: Old and new place of worship problems, Greek Catholic clergy restrictions
Greek Catholic priests who have arrived to serve their Crimean parishes have been told they can remain for only three months at a time, before having to leave for at least one month
24 June 2014, 10:26 | Society-digest |
Ukrainian Church Faces Obscure Pro-Russia Revolt in Its Own Ranks
Such views, espoused by a small but noisy group of fundamentalist Catholic clerics in western Ukraine, are commonplace among the clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church and its Ukrainian affiliate, whose Moscow-based patriarch is a firm ally of President Vladimir V. Putin.
19 June 2014, 08:50 | Society-digest |
The Catholic Difference
An Open Letter to the Patriarch of Moscow
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

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