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Poroshenko asks Constantinople to recognize autocephaly of the Ukrainian Church | 28 July 2017, 11:45 |
28 July 2017, 11:45
Poroshenko asks Constantinople to recognize autocephaly of the Ukrainian Church

5 May 2017, 14:05 | Journalistic investigations |
Historical memory or legal rights: Baptists in Volyn struggle for the future of an ancient church
The ruins of the old church in the district center of Rozhische in Volyn have become the subject of controversy between the Protestants and the Orthodox. The temple was built in the nineteenth century by the Baptists, “the Soviets” expropriated and placed manufacturing plants in the church.
17 February 2017, 18:33 | Events & people |
Heroes of our time. A story of a missionary from Avdiyivka
How does it feel - to abandon ambitions or favorite work and go to the east of Ukraine, in the thick of war at the age of 20-22?
21 December 2016, 14:35 | Kaleidoscope | |
Ternopil amateur gives second life to rundown churches
The craftsman has also made architectural models, recreating the original appearance of the temples that have survived altered, and his plans include the creation of a museum of architectural models.
14 December 2016, 11:55 | Reports |
Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti about Vatican diplomacy, Ukraine and Syria
The Vatican’s international relations have their own unique history of diplomacy and influence the course of events. The special status of a mini-state, its uniqueness often allows exerting influence in places and in ways that are inaccessible to secular diplomats.
12 October 2016, 13:46 | Events & people | |
Religious freedom for Ukraine: the contribution of Keston College (1969-89)
In the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv on October 6, Canon Dr. Michael Bourdeaux gave a lecture "Religious freedom in Ukraine: the contribution Keston College (1969-89)."

7 July 2017, 13:28 | Interview |
Timothy Snyder about history, Church, and Ukraine
6 July 2017, 16:33 | Andrew Sorokowski's column |
Volhynia, Fatima, and the Donbas
The Russian aggression in the Donbas is neither similar nor analogous to the Polish-Ukrainian war. To imply that that the former is divine retribution for the latter is to misstate the moral equities, for it has been acknowledged that the Volhynian atrocities were mutual.
8 June 2017, 21:28 | Andrew Sorokowski's column |
Two Drafts — and the Winds of Change
Draft Laws 4128 and 4511 have arisen in the context of a politicization of religion in conditions of the Russian war against Ukraine, and of the flurry of defections from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate

7 July 2016, 13:11 | Religious studies |
Ukrainain Orthodoxy on the eve of Pan-Orthodox Council. Part III
The history evidences: the Local Churches that were historically associated with earthly empires were uninterested in the canonical establishment of local churches under their jurisdictions, and therefore usually granted autocephaly to churches only under the pressure of historic circumstances. No exception is the Moscow Patriarchate, which has incorporated the Orthodox Church in Ukraine since 1686.
5 July 2016, 14:22 | Religious studies |
Ukrainian Orthodoxy: path to recovery of Church unity. Part II
Ukrainian Orthodoxy and Ukrainian society suffer from division. The majority of Ukrainian Orthodox believers belong to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate. The rest of the Orthodox community of Ukraine has chosen a different path of self-proclaimed autocephaly. However, neither the first nor the second path is optimal for the Orthodox Church in Ukraine to date.

Poroshenko asks Constantinople to recognize autocephaly of the Ukrainian Church | 28 July 2017, 11:45 | National religious question |
ATO participants to head this year the religious procession of the UOC-KP | 27 July 2017, 09:26 | UOC KP |
With Technical Committee of Pope for Ukraine Initiative finishing its work, the Initiative moves to the next stage | 26 July 2017, 14:40 | RCC in Ukraine |
A unique Icon, symbol of Ukrainian warriors, blessed in St Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery | 26 July 2017, 14:13 | UOC KP |
Statements about the repressions against the UOC-MP are the Kremlin’s daydreams, Victor Yelenskyy believes | 26 July 2017, 12:00 | Religion and policy |
Cardinal Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State to Visit Russia Next Month | 25 July 2017, 15:02 | Vatican |
Ukrainian Orthodox bishop of Crimea visited in court of the Muslim imprisoned by Russian authorities | 25 July 2017, 10:53 | Religion and society |
Nearly 1.2 mln UAH allocated to reconstruct the convent of Armenian Benedictines in Lviv | 24 July 2017, 15:49 | Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritance |
UOC-MP to hold festivities on July 27-28 in Kyiv | 24 July 2017, 15:01 | UOC (MP) |
Notorious Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate wrote the open letter to President and Prime-Minister | 24 July 2017, 14:44 | Church-state relations |
Church leaders discuss the Bill on opening the Parliament’s session with Our Father prayer | 21 July 2017, 10:44 | Church-state relations |
Ancient Lutheran church being restored in Odesa region | 21 July 2017, 10:20 | Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritance |
Virtual map of Christian and Jewish sights of Inter-War Period in Rivne | 21 July 2017, 10:16 | History, archaeology |
Ruling Bishop of UOC MP Diocese of Luhansk met with OSCE representatives | 21 July 2017, 09:48 | Religion and policy |
Patriarch Filaret arrives to Bukovyna | 21 July 2017, 09:31 | UOC KP |
Ukrainian MPs propose to start assemblies with a prayer | 20 July 2017, 11:23 | Religion and policy |
Russia Jehovah's Witnesses banned after they lose appeal | 19 July 2017, 17:49 | World news
OSCE holds a seminar on peaceful relations between religious communities in Lviv | 19 July 2017, 13:00 | Land and property problems |
Peel police investigate small suspicious fire at Ukrainian Catholic church in Canada | 18 July 2017, 13:13 | Ukrainians outside of Ukraine |
Cardinal Sandri shared about his visit to Ukraine | 18 July 2017, 10:31 | Vatican |
Lviv resident detains three young men who painted swastika on Space of Synagogues | 13 July 2017, 14:07 | Religious intolerance and vandalism |
Cardinal Leonardo Sandri met with the IDPs from Donbas in Kharkiv | 13 July 2017, 09:55 | Religion and society |
Head of the UGCC: “The Pope not only loves us, but prays for us, but is the voice of suffering Ukraine before the powers that be” | 13 July 2017, 01:03 | Vatican
Neither party benefits from the historical conflict between Ukraine and Poland, Ukrainian Ambassador in Poland believes | 12 July 2017, 12:42 | International relations |
Pope entrusted me to testify you are holding a special place in his heart, Cardinal Leonardo Sandri toUkrainian Greek Catholics | 12 July 2017, 11:15 | Religious ceremonies and pilgrimage |
A book about Muslims involved in the ATO presented in Kyiv | 12 July 2017, 10:22 | Faith and weapon |
Vandals destroyed gravestones in the yard of UOC-MP church in Uman | 11 July 2017, 12:30 | Scandals, crime |
Active Christians of Europe how to act in the situation of secularized society | 11 July 2017, 10:34 | UGCC |
70th anniversary of the Ukrainian settlement in Australia | 10 July 2017, 16:19 | Ukrainians outside of Ukraine
Kyivan Patriarchate demends fair pension reform | 10 July 2017, 14:29 | Religion and society |
Crimean Court extends detention of persons involved in Hizb-Ut-Takhrir case for 2 months | 9 July 2017, 10:46 | Church-state relations |
"Look closely at their faces" - Ukrainian art project at G20 | 7 July 2017, 10:42 | Faith and weapon |
St. John the Baptist Parish in Australia celebrated 65th anniversary | 6 July 2017, 16:28 | Ukrainians outside of Ukraine |
Remains of ancient temple or Necropolis found on Podillia | 6 July 2017, 14:40 | History, archaeology | |
100 single mothers to acquire profession with the support of Evangelical Church | 6 July 2017, 14:03 | Charismatics |
People persecuted by court in Crimea for their religious convictions | 6 July 2017, 13:09 | Church-state relations |
Joaquin Navarro-Valls, longtime Vatican spokesman, dead at 80 | 6 July 2017, 12:54 | World news |
"We are close to you", - Ecumenical Patriarch to Ukrainian journalists | 5 July 2017, 17:09 | Ecumenical Patriarchate |
State authorities open to dialogue with churches and ready to promote their activities, Ukrainian prime-minister | 5 July 2017, 09:33 | Church-state relations |
Ukrainian Prosecution records all instances of Jehovah's Witnesses persecution | 4 July 2017, 16:38 | Church-state relations |

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3 July 2017, 15:38 | Society-digest
Ukrainians welcome new Bishop of the Eparchy of Saint Nicholas in Chicago
The new bishop transferred to the United States from the titular see of Germaniciana and the office of auxiliary of the Archieparchy of Lviv of the Ukrainians.
26 June 2017, 14:04 | Society-digest |
Cardinal Parolin Says ‘In All Probability’ He Will Visit Moscow Soon
Vatican Secretary of State said “conditions are in place” to visit Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill and President Vladimir Putin in August.
22 June 2017, 19:42 | Society-digest
Comment: Ukrainian Cardinals Husar and Slipyj are heroes to Church community
The death on May 31 of Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, patriarch emeritus of Kyiv, former head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), resonated in Canada where, outside of Ukraine, the largest Ukrainian Catholic community is found.
9 June 2017, 15:40 | Society-digest
Feeling Abandoned, Russian Catholics Appeal to the Pope
A group of Russian Catholics is demanding greater recognition from Pope Francis, saying the Vatican’s appeasement of Moscow threatens its very existence.
7 June 2017, 08:57 | Society-digest |
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