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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)."
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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.
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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.
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28 July 2017, 11:45 | National religious question |
Poroshenko asks Constantinople to recognize autocephaly of the Ukrainian Church
Note that July 28 marks the Day of the Baptism of Kyivan Rus - Ukraine. This day the tribute is paid to memory of the Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Volodymyr - who baptized Rus in 988.
27 July 2017, 09:26 | UOC KP |
ATO participants to head this year the religious procession of the UOC-KP
The religious procession, organized by the UOC-KP on July 28 is to be led by the ATO participants alongside the Church's leaders. According to UNIAN, the patriarchal governor Metropolitan Epiphanius told journalists about it.
26 July 2017, 14:40 | RCC in Ukraine |
With Technical Committee of Pope for Ukraine Initiative finishing its work, the Initiative moves to the next stage
Appointed as Secretariat Coordinator is His Grace Bishop Edward Kawa,OFM Conv., Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Lviv of the Latins. His Grace Bishop Kenneth Nowakowski of New-Westminster Eparchy (Canada) of Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, will become the counselor.
26 July 2017, 14:13 | UOC KP |
A unique Icon, symbol of Ukrainian warriors, blessed in St Michael’s Golden-Domed Monastery
26 July 2017, 12:00 | Religion and policy |
Statements about the repressions against the UOC-MP are the Kremlin’s daydreams, Victor Yelenskyy believes
Statements of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) about the “harassment and persecution” that supposedly take place are “daydreaming being broadcast from Moscow”, which, in turn, considers the UOC (MP) as “a branch of the Russian Church.”
25 July 2017, 15:02 | Vatican |
Cardinal Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State to Visit Russia Next Month
“I go to Russia as a collaborator of the Pope, who wants to build bridges to make grow the capacity to understand one another and to dialogue,” says Cardinal Pietro Parolin.
25 July 2017, 10:53 | Religion and society |
Ukrainian Orthodox bishop of Crimea visited in court of the Muslim imprisoned by Russian authorities
The UOC-KP Patriarchate Archbishop of Simferopol and the Crimea Clement visited in the court room the activist Volodymyr Baluch, arrested in Crimea by Russian regimes that annexed the peninsula.
24 July 2017, 15:49 | Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritance |
Nearly 1.2 mln UAH allocated to reconstruct the convent of Armenian Benedictines in Lviv
The stone restoration is carried out by Ukrainian and German specialists within the project "Municipal development and renovation of the ancient part of Lviv" (GIZ). The city budget allocated for restoration about 1.2 million UAH.
24 July 2017, 15:01 | UOC (MP) |
UOC-MP to hold festivities on July 27-28 in Kyiv
On July 27, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church will hold a prayer service on St Volodymyr’s Hill and the religious procession on the central streets of Kyiv with the miraculous icons, and on July 28 a festive Divine Liturgy will take place on the square in front of the Holy Dormition Cathedral of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra.
24 July 2017, 14:44 | Church-state relations |
Notorious Metropolitan of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate wrote the open letter to President and Prime-Minister
21 July 2017, 10:44 | Church-state relations |
Church leaders discuss the Bill on opening the Parliament’s session with Our Father prayer
Representatives of Ukrainian churches commented on the initiative of a number of MPs, offering to read the prayer Our Father immediately after the opening of a plenary session of the Parliament of Ukraine, Religion in Ukraine has reported with reference to Ukranews.com and Rrochurch.info.
21 July 2017, 10:20 | Restoration, maintainance of cultural inheritance |
Ancient Lutheran church being restored in Odesa region
In Dolynivka village (Bilhorod-Dnistrovsky district) the restoration of an ancient church is underway. According to IzbirKom, at the expense of the local budget, they are currently installing a fence, which will protect the building from the destruction and intrusion of offender.
21 July 2017, 10:16 | History, archaeology |
Virtual map of Christian and Jewish sights of Inter-War Period in Rivne
On July 19, an updated virtual map of the sites of historical and cultural heritage “Polycultural Rivne” was presented.
21 July 2017, 09:48 | Religion and policy |
Ruling Bishop of UOC MP Diocese of Luhansk met with OSCE representatives
On June 18, 2017, Metropolitan Mytrofan of Luhansk and Alchevsk met with Principal Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine and Deputy Coordinator of the OSCE Observer Group in the Lugansk region Almir Mehanovic at his work residence.
21 July 2017, 09:31 | UOC KP |
Patriarch Filaret arrives to Bukovyna
20 July 2017, 11:23 | Religion and policy |
Ukrainian MPs propose to start assemblies with a prayer
Several members of the Ukrainian parliament registered a bill on changes in the rules of procedure. He presupposes that the opening of each plenary session in Parliament, the prayer "Our Father," should be read, reported on the official website of the Verkhovna Rada.
19 July 2017, 17:49 | World news
Russia Jehovah's Witnesses banned after they lose appeal
The group's Russia spokesman, Yaroslav Sivulsky, said that "religious freedom in Russia is over".
19 July 2017, 13:00 | Land and property problems |
OSCE holds a seminar on peaceful relations between religious communities in Lviv
The event lasts almost a week, during which participants will be able to listen to lectures and advice from experts from Scotland, Poland, Italy, and the USA, to discuss and dialogue with each other within the specified topics.
18 July 2017, 13:13 | Ukrainians outside of Ukraine |
Peel police investigate small suspicious fire at Ukrainian Catholic church in Canada
18 July 2017, 10:31 | Vatican |
Cardinal Sandri shared about his visit to Ukraine
Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, wraps up a week-long visit to Ukraine on Monday.
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