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/all_news/state/national_religious_question/57900/Fri, 10 Oct 2014 14:02:04 +0300St Demetrius of Thessaloniki Orthodox church community of Vyshneve Village in Volyn, wrote an open letter to Primate of the UOC (MP) Onufriy (Berezovsky). Believers express dissatisfaction with the attitude of their church leadership towards recent political developments in the country.National religious questionhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/state/church_state_relations/57896/Fri, 10 Oct 2014 10:20:12 +0300Prime Minister of Ukraine Yatsenyuk said that the government will not allow stirring religious hatred in Ukraine. He will pursue those guilty of the seizure of temples and priests under law, reports the Institute for Religious Freedom.Church-state relationshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/freedom_of_conscience/57892/Thu, 09 Oct 2014 22:55:13 +0300Andrew Bennett, Canada’s Ambassador for Religious Freedom, finishes his visit to Ukraine. During the visit Ambassador Bennett visited Kyiv and now stays in Lviv, where he meets with government officials, religious leaders and civil society leaders.Freedom of Consciencehttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/other_confessions/judaism/57891/Thu, 09 Oct 2014 18:56:44 +0300Judaismhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/religion_and_policy/57889/Thu, 09 Oct 2014 11:00:08 +0300In Kharkiv, the cross was removed from the pedestal of the monument to Vladimir Lenin at Svobody Square. According to a UNIAN reporter, a State Flag of Ukraine, much bigger than the previous one, has been installed in the place of the cross.Religion and policyhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/culture/theology/57885/Thu, 09 Oct 2014 10:00:58 +0300Theology and religious educationhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/monitoring/society_digest/57870/Wed, 08 Oct 2014 09:30:32 +0300Society-digesthttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/extraordinary_situations/57858/Mon, 06 Oct 2014 14:54:45 +0300In Lugansk, the Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate has been seized by Russian Don Cossacks, Ukrayinska Pravda reports.Extraordinary situationshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/confessional/orthodox_relations/57857/Mon, 06 Oct 2014 13:32:46 +0300Bishop Filaret (Kucherov) of Lviv and Halych of the UOC (MP) expressed outrage with the methods of transfer of the Holy Protection Church of the UOC (MP) to the UOC-KP. He said the congregation had no desire to move to another denomination, but the ‘rebels’ ignored it.Inter-Orthodox relationshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/blog/57851/Sun, 05 Oct 2014 20:15:03 +0300http://risu.org.ua/en/index/monitoring/society_digest/57842/Fri, 03 Oct 2014 22:55:11 +0300Reports of rebels threatening churches with firing squards, storming church services and holding pastors hostage are just some of the stories that have emerged from rebel-held regions of eastern Ukraine in recent months.Society-digesthttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/monitoring/society_digest/57841/Fri, 03 Oct 2014 22:39:08 +0300Mariupol, East Ukraine, late September 2014. Officially, there is a truce between the pro-Russian separatists, based around Donetsk and Lugansk, and the Ukrainian army.Society-digesthttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/state/church_state_relations/57840/Fri, 03 Oct 2014 16:03:34 +0300Prime Minister Yatsenyuk calls on Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate to take advantage of its influence in Donbas to release hostages.Church-state relationshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/state/church_state_relations/57837/Fri, 03 Oct 2014 13:42:25 +0300At today’s meeting with representatives of the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations, Parliament Speaker Oleksandr Turchynov proposed to determine the date of the common prayer for our country before parliamentary elections.Church-state relationshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/confessional/interchurch_relations/57828/Thu, 02 Oct 2014 18:21:07 +0300"And this gives us hope that the ecumenical dialogue is moving forward despite the various difficult moments of crisis," concluded the Secretary of the Synod of Bishops of the UGCC.Interchurch relationshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/temples_church_property/57821/Thu, 02 Oct 2014 10:16:03 +0300On September 27, a chapel with a statue of the Mother of God dedicated to the soldiers who died in the ATO was consecrated in Kolomyia.Temples, church propertyhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/community/charity/57820/Thu, 02 Oct 2014 10:06:10 +0300In Kyiv the UOC (MP) undertook to restore the military hospital – a building erected in the 1930s. In August this building was repaired by volunteers, benefactors, and nurses, using their own resources, and in September local clergymen joined in.Charity, social servicehttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/other_confessions/islam/57818/Wed, 01 Oct 2014 16:53:53 +0300The fate of the two young men kidnapped two days ago in the Belogorsk suburb still is unknown despite the authorities’ promise to “return the missing young men before the next morning.” The father of one of them, Mr. Abdureshit Jepparov, left for Simferopol to meet the “Head of Crimea” Mr. Sergei Aksenov, Islam in Ukraine informs.Islamhttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/all_news/confessional/orthodox_relations/57814/Wed, 01 Oct 2014 13:04:37 +0300Ukrainian intellectuals turned to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew with a request to save Ukrainian people from the ‘Russian world’ and aggressive ‘political orthodoxy’ that the Kremlin imposes on through the ROC and the UOC (MP).Inter-Orthodox relationshttp://risu.org.ua/en/index/exclusive/reportage/57813/Wed, 01 Oct 2014 12:09:40 +0300On September 30, under the educational project ‘Informatics and Applied Security Center of the city’ in Lviv, Father Tikhon Kulbaka spoke about his captivity, the power of prayer in war, and whether there is interreligious conflict in Donbas.Reports