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Primate of the UOC may be elected only under its effective statute, Department of Religions | 21 Jule 2014, 09:22 |
21 Jule 2014, 09:22
Primate of the UOC may be elected only under its effective statute, Department of Religions
All Ukrainian Council of Churches call on separatists to surrender and release all hostages | 10 Jule 2014, 10:15 |
10 Jule 2014, 10:15
All Ukrainian Council of Churches call on separatists to surrender and release all hostages

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.

7 Jule 2014, 12:46 | с |
Who is he? In memoriam of His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr
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”.

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

Jews can not be considered separately from all Ukrainian, because together we are fighting for a sovereign and integral Ukraine - Yaakov Dov Bleich | 23 Jule 2014, 15:40 | National religious question |
The Institute for Orthodox Thought and Culture created in US | 23 Jule 2014, 09:08 | World news |
Details have emerged of the murder of priests in Sloviansk | 22 Jule 2014, 11:34 | Scandals, crime |
U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has donated 1.3 million to Ukraine | 22 Jule 2014, 10:30 | RCC in Ukraine |
Country house of Archbishop Clement (UOC KP) burned down in Crimea | 22 Jule 2014, 09:13 | Scandals, crime |
Terrorists invited Patriarch Kirill to celebrate the Baptism of Rus | 21 Jule 2014, 11:27 | Religion and policy |
We will overcome everything, God and truth are with us, said Arseniy Yatsenuyk to young people in Zarvanytsya | 21 Jule 2014, 10:15 | National religious question |
Primate of the UOC may be elected only under its effective statute, Department of Religions | 21 Jule 2014, 09:22 | Authorities Religious Affairs |
A Christian’s duty is to defend his land during military confrontation, UGCC head addressed young people in Zarvanytsia | 20 Jule 2014, 10:36 | Children young people and religion |
Putin sets objective to Patriarch Kirill to convince the world that Russia is not an aggressor | 19 Jule 2014, 22:22 | Religion and policy |
Locum Tenens of the UOC-MP condemned guilty of plane crash: no one will escape judgment of God | 19 Jule 2014, 21:40 | National religious question |
Archbishop Ihor (Isichenko): may the prayer for innocent victims unite us in opposing the civilization of evil | 19 Jule 2014, 21:16 | National religious question |
UOC-MP and UOC-KP ready to discuss integration if there is God’s will | 18 Jule 2014, 16:38 | Inter-Orthodox relations |
UGCC Head expressed his condolences to the victims of aircrash in Donetsk region | 18 Jule 2014, 16:23 | International relations |
UGCC Bishop remembers the deceased passengers of Boeing near the Dutch Embassy | 18 Jule 2014, 15:54 | Religion and society |
A famous missionary gifted an icon with a piece St George’s relics to Strelkov | 18 Jule 2014, 14:32 | Religion and policy |
Russian media distorted information about the murder of priests in Slavyansk | 18 Jule 2014, 13:52 | International relations |
The UOC-KP and UOC-MP spokesmen expressed condolences over the plane crash near Donetsk | 18 Jule 2014, 13:45 | International relations |
Patriarch Filaret extends condolences to the victims of crashed Malaysian Airlines plane and condemned terrorists | 18 Jule 2014, 11:07 | International relations |
Aid from UOC-KP sent to Slavyansk | 17 Jule 2014, 09:41 | Faith and weapon |
Militants in Donetsk region plagued to death two deacons and two laymen of the Church of Christians of Evangelical Faith | 16 Jule 2014, 11:28 | Religion and policy |
UOC-KP to provide humanitarian aid to Donbass residents | 16 Jule 2014, 10:39 | Religion and society |
UOC-MP head shall be elected with participation of laity, says religious expert | 16 Jule 2014, 09:47 | UOC (MP) |
Terrorists abducted a Roman Catholic priest | 15 Jule 2014, 17:20 | Scandals, crime |
UGCC head enthrones new bishop | 15 Jule 2014, 10:32 | Ukrainians outside of Ukraine |
UGCC priest is released from captivity | 15 Jule 2014, 07:46 | Religion and policy |
New UOC Primate to be elected without Patriarch Kirill | 14 Jule 2014, 20:38 | UOC (MP) |
A tomb with mutilated bodies of two priests and two sons of one priest found in Donetsk region | 14 Jule 2014, 20:28 | Scandals, crime |
Svyatogorsk Lavra representative assures they are not harboring militants | 14 Jule 2014, 12:52 | UOC (MP) |
Employee of two Synodal Departments of UOC suspected of financing terrorism | 14 Jule 2014, 11:51 | Religion and policy |
UOC-MP Locum Tenens set up a commission to prepare and hold the council to elect the Primate | 14 Jule 2014, 09:46 | UOC (MP) |
Moscow offered Patriarch Filaret to lead UOC-MP on certain conditions | 13 Jule 2014, 22:30 | UOC KP |
Over forty days UAOC Kharkiv-Poltava Diocese will pray for newly-departed Valeria Novodvorskaya | 13 Jule 2014, 08:48 | Religion and society |
UGCC Patriarch pays pastoral visit to Brazil | 12 Jule 2014, 11:08 | Ukrainians outside of Ukraine |
Patriarch Filaret bestowed church order on Minister of Culture for Euromaidan | 11 Jule 2014, 18:10 | Church-state relations |
Blessed Vasyl Velychkovskyy to become heavenly patron of the UGCC prison chaplains | 11 Jule 2014, 16:52 | Religious ceremonies and pilgrimage |
Terrorists arranged gun emplacements on a church's dome in Snizhne | 11 Jule 2014, 12:25 | Religion and policy |
“Support each other and remember that truth is with us”, UOC-KP priest blessed the military going East | 11 Jule 2014, 11:20 | National religious question |
Ecumenical prayer for peace continue in Kyiv | 11 Jule 2014, 10:53 | Interchurch relations |
Militants seized Donetsk Christian University | 11 Jule 2014, 09:37 | Scandals, crime |

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1 Jule 2014, 12:25 | Society-digest |
CRIMEA: Raids, violence, threats – but what protection do victims get?
About 30 armed Russian security agency officers raided a madrassah (Islamic religious school) near the Crimean capital Simferopol on 24 June, Forum 18 News Service notes.
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

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