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  • 2 September 2015, 14:18 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

    Does bad theology make bad politics?

    We can thus be grateful to Patriarch Kirill not only for discovering a new principle of church and state — that bad theology makes bad politics – but for providing a most convincing proof.

  • 11 August 2015, 09:52 | Interview | 

    International community should give adequate assessment of Moscow Patriarchate’s responsibility for incitement and developments in Crimea and Donbas, Andriy Yurash says

    Head of the Department for Religions and Nationalities to the Ministry of Culture Andriy Yurash.

  • 10 August 2015, 13:03 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

    Fading Faith?

    The Russian government’s attempts to exert social control through the established Church have failed.

  • 16 July 2015, 09:56 | Open theme |  | 

    Ukraine Islamic vector: Ukrainian Ummah’s reason for being

    Russian-Ukrainian conflict affected among the others the Muslim community of Ukraine. The post-totalitarian syndrome whereby religion is regulated by bureaucracy provokes further political intervention into the spiritual realm and new confrontation.

  • 1 July 2015, 17:45 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

    Stealing Names

    In the appendix to his futuristic novel “1984,” George Orwell described “Newspeak,” a language that eliminated politically inconvenient words and concepts. In the novel, the ruling elite understands that one of the best ways to destroy an idea or institution is to deprive it of its name.

  • 16 June 2015, 15:47 | Interview | 

    Everything will just begin for Christian ministers as the war ends:ATO soldiers and their families tofacethe need for rehabilitation

  • 8 June 2015, 09:07 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

    “Russian World” or Kyivan Christianity?

    A Eurasian turn in Russian foreign policy could be good news for Ukraine – not only politically and militarily, but also ecclesiologically.

  • 5 June 2015, 13:18 | Comments | 

    Some observations on the book “The Maidan and the Church. Chronicle of events and expert estimation”

    Now in 2015 we have right to say that processes in Europe after the Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine 2013-2014 and the “New Cold War” by Russia give strong reasons to impose that “local” event has vivid global sense.

  • 11 May 2015, 09:21 | Kateryna Shchotkina's column | 

    HOLY HYBRID WAR

    Thus, “nationality” absorbed and substituted “orthodoxy” as easy (or even easier) as “Russian Orthodoxy” absorbed and substituted “Christianity.”

  • 8 May 2015, 10:49 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

    A latter-day Meletii?

    In terms of complexity and confusion, as well as the intrusion of political factors, our times resemble those of Smotryts’kyi and Mohyla. They require religious leaders of subtle intelligence and diplomatic skill – and followers who can appreciate them.

  • 9 April 2015, 09:50 | Interview | 

    Archbishop Ihor (Isichenko): Illusion of the past and negative stereotypes prevent rapprochement with the UGCC

    RISU decided to ask Archbishop Ihor (Isichenko) what was actually was discussed at the Council and what was the reason for turning to the head of the UGCC?

  • 9 April 2015, 09:23 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

    Thought crimes in the Crimea?

    Police supervision of religious education restricts freedom of religion itself. This is one more instance of the baleful effects of Russian occupation on the once religiously free and diverse peninsula.

  • 24 March 2015, 13:25 | Interview |  | 

    We don’t bless war but the defense of our homeland

    Father Stepan Sus is an experienced military chaplain. He is Chairman of the said Center for Military Chaplains and Rector of the garrison Church of Sts. Peter and Paul in Lviv.

  • 13 March 2015, 10:41 | Open theme | 

    Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church: fifteen years of lost opportunities for Ukrainian Orthodoxy. Will the mistakes be corrected?

    Orthodoxy in Ukraine is on the verge of changes. In war the internal demand of society for the establishment of the local Orthodox Church in Ukraine increases.

  • 6 March 2015, 14:12 | Open theme

    Pope Expresses Total Support for Ukrainian Bishops

    Pope Francis expressed his closeness to the Ukrainian bishops and to their people. Without mentioning it by name, he calls on Russia to adhere to the ceasefire agreement it signed in Minsk (which its agents have been flagrantly violating)

  • 6 March 2015, 10:26 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

    Clerics In Camo

    “If your hearts burn with true love for Ukraine, for this Ukrainian people enslaved for ages, it is not you, but this burning love that will speak and act.”

  • 27 February 2015, 16:22 | Interview | 

    Archbishop Mieczyslaw Mokrzycki: We are not a Polish Mission in Ukraine

    We are not a Polish mission in Ukraine. We are the Roman Catholic Church, as in Poland, Italy, Romania, and other countries. And we are trying to emphasize it.

  • 16 February 2015, 16:48 | Interview | 

    Russian leadership does not understand what bomb it planted under themselves – Mykhailo Panochko

  • 10 February 2015, 16:24 | Open theme | 

    When Diplomacy Prevails over the Principles of the Faith

    The Catholic Church must radically re-think its position on ecumenism, cleansing it of false stereotypes and harmful intertia.

  • 8 February 2015, 10:26 | Analysis | 

    Orthodox Army against Uniates, Dissenters and Sectarians: Ideology and Terror of the Russian World

    One should discern the unity of political and religious motives in the developments relating to Ukraine.

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