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25 July 2017, 17:19 | Reports | |
“Faith and Light” celebrates 25th anniversary of special friendship
Members of the Faith and Light movement try not only to serve the poor, do something for them, but to stay beside them, to become friends for them.
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.

16 August 2017, 09:23 | Andrew Sorokowski's column |
Fears and Phobias
Ukrainian autocephaly is a threat to the Moscow Patriarchate’s control of East Slavic Orthodoxy. And the Moscow Patriarchate’s ecclesiastical control over Orthodoxy in Ukraine and Belarus is an important element of the Kremlin’s political control over those countries.
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.

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.

Patriarch Filaret pays tribute to new heroes at Lychakiv in Lviv | 13 September 2017, 13:52 | UOC KP |
‘Russian World’ to be taught at Christian ethic classes in Donetsk People’s Republic | 13 September 2017, 11:05 | Religion and policy |
Monks of the UOC (MP) hid a famous terrorist from Novorossia in Kremenets | 13 September 2017, 11:03 | Religion and policy |
One more Muslim detained in occupied Crimea | 13 September 2017, 10:43 | Freedom of Conscience |
UGCC creates a new diocese and appoints its new hierarch | 12 September 2017, 14:57 | UGCC |
Synod of Bishops of the UGCC to adopt a new charter, as “Church has grown” | 11 September 2017, 14:57 | UGCC |
First Adventist school for children opens in Odessa | 11 September 2017, 11:24 | Adventists |
Patriarchal pilgrimage held in Goshiv | 11 September 2017, 10:37 | Religious ceremonies and pilgrimage | |
Parliamentary committee supports abolition of notarization of religious organizations’ charters | 8 September 2017, 10:32 | Legislation |
Russian Orthodox Church urges Poroshenko not to interfere with church matters and claims the Local Church already exists in Ukraine | 7 September 2017, 16:31 | Church-state relations |
UOC-MP files complaint with OSCE on persecutions of believers in Kotyuzhyny | 6 September 2017, 14:44 | Protests and conflicts
UOC-KP community in Kostyantynivka forced under the authority of the Moscow Patriarchate | 6 September 2017, 11:31 | Protests and conflicts | |
Persons involved in the attacks on the temple of the UOC-KP must be imposed sanctions | 5 September 2017, 14:05 | Religious intolerance and vandalism |
Church is planned to be turned into a communal grave | 5 September 2017, 10:15 | Religious intolerance and vandalism |
President Poroshenko calls to stop attacks on the Ukrainian Church in Crimea | 4 September 2017, 11:10 | Religious intolerance and vandalism |
MFA of Ukraine requests Russia to stop religious persecutions in Crimea | 2 September 2017, 10:56 | Religious intolerance and vandalism
Law enforcement in Crimea block the church of Kyiv Patriarchate | 31 August 2017, 13:20 | Religious intolerance and vandalism |
UGCC Hierarchs from all over the world come to Lviv Synod | 30 August 2017, 12:23 | UGCC |
Youth Festival held in Poltava region on the occasion of 500th anniversary of Reformation | 30 August 2017, 10:16 | Christians of Evangelical Faith |
25 Years of UCU in Ukraine: Opening of the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Center | 29 August 2017, 10:00 | Theology and religious education |
All-Ukraine Summit of Jewish Youth | 29 August 2017, 09:28 | Judaism |
Victims of Ilovaisk cauldron remembered in prayers in Kyiv | 29 August 2017, 09:14 | National religious question | |
Pope Francis ‘pleased’ with Card Parolin’s ‘constructive’ visit to Russia, Vatican Radio | 26 August 2017, 07:38 | Vatican |
Poroshenko mentions former head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church at the Parade on the Independence Day | 24 August 2017, 11:34 | Religion and society |
Archaeologists find unique artefacts in the territory of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra | 18 August 2017, 11:32 | History, archaeology |
Ministry of Justice sets the Pastoral Council for Religious Care in Penitentiary System | 17 August 2017, 14:30 | Church-state relations |
Crimean Human Right Organization detects participation of the Church in militarization of children | 17 August 2017, 10:29 | Children young people and religion |
The International Interdisciplinary Certificate Program For Hebrew And Biblical Studies | 17 August 2017, 10:29 | Announcements |
“Fruit Basket for Defender of Ukraine” in Lviv | 16 August 2017, 11:58 | Faith and weapon |
The US Department of State report on the religious situation in Ukraine in 2016 | 16 August 2017, 11:24 | Religious intolerance and vandalism |
Orthodox Bishops Beyond the Borders of Ukraine congratulate Ukrainians on the Occasion of the 26th Anniversary of Independence | 15 August 2017, 16:31 | Ukrainians outside of Ukraine
In Crimea, occupants destroyed a Muslim cemetery to build cottages | 15 August 2017, 10:23 | Religious intolerance and vandalism |
A crypt with fragments of ancient gravestones from Jewish cemetery found in Odesa | 15 August 2017, 09:55 | Judaism |
Episcopal Ordination of Bishop-Elect Andriy Rabiy, auxiliary Ukrainian Catholic bishop of Philadelphia, will be held in Lviv | 11 August 2017, 10:44 | UGCC |
Kyiv Patriarchate is de facto the state church today, says Metropolitan Oleksandr Drabynko | 10 August 2017, 13:33 | Church-state relations |
First All-Ukrainian prayer for health professionals held in Kyiv | 10 August 2017, 11:02 | Religion and society |
Russian authorities searched the Mullah’s house in Crimea | 9 August 2017, 12:00 | Religious intolerance and vandalism |
A memorial to rabbi Gilel from Parich unveiled in Kherson | 9 August 2017, 11:11 | Judaism |
Protestants of Kharkiv hand over 400 kg of medical items for wounded soldiers | 9 August 2017, 10:27 | Faith and weapon |
Ukranian archeparchy in Philadelphia gets a new auxiliary bishop | 8 August 2017, 14:51 | UGCC |

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