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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew calls to stop the war and aggression in eastern Ukraine | 28 November 2017, 08:04 |
28 November 2017, 08:04
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew calls to stop the war and aggression in eastern Ukraine
Petro Poroshenko claims the need of adopting the law on responsibility for non-recognition of the Holodomor | 25 November 2017, 18:18 |
25 November 2017, 18:18
Petro Poroshenko claims the need of adopting the law on responsibility for non-recognition of the Holodomor

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.

18 October 2017, 08:08 | Analysis |
Laws on reintegration of Donbas: a wake-up call for UOC-MP
At one time, Metropolitan Onufriy, the Primate of the UOC-MP, when asked about Russia's aggression in the Crimea, answered as he probably considered the top of moderation: “I'm not a politician, I cannot answer this question.”
5 October 2017, 14:29 | James Siemens' column |
Reclaiming Orthodoxy
As a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church living in Cardiff, Wales, I am faced by the challenge of identifying myself on a regular basis.
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 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.

Global Leadership Summit in Lviv Discusses successful leadership based on Christian values | 29 November 2017, 10:05 | Religion and society |
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew calls to stop the war and aggression in eastern Ukraine | 28 November 2017, 08:04 | National religious question |
Bartholomew on the Holodomor: we remember Stalin’s acts of barbarism towards spiritual children of the Church of Constantinople | 27 November 2017, 09:56 | National religious question |
Patriarch of UGCC explains why ATO soldiers are not murderers | 27 November 2017, 08:07 | Religion and society |
Pope: I pray for Ukraine that the power of faith heals wounds of the past | 27 November 2017, 07:47 | Vatican
Poroshenko extends condolences to Egyptian President in connection with the terrorist attack in a mosque | 26 November 2017, 09:20 | World news |
Petro Poroshenko claims the need of adopting the law on responsibility for non-recognition of the Holodomor | 25 November 2017, 18:18 | National religious question |
President Poroshenko remembers Holodomor victims | 25 November 2017, 13:54 | National religious question |
Ukrainians commemorate Holodomor victims | 25 November 2017, 10:31 | National religious question | |
Patriarch of the UGCC: I agree to become an organ donor after death | 25 November 2017, 07:25 | Religion and society |
Ukrainian Catholic bishops in 1933: Ukraine is struggling with death | 23 November 2017, 16:22 | UGCC
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA on the Thanksgiving Day | 23 November 2017, 15:54 | Ukrainians outside of Ukraine
A concept of Babyn Yar Memorial Center for the Holocaust presented in Kyiv | 22 November 2017, 11:08 | National religious question |
UOC-KP hierarch tells journalists why parishes leave the UOC-MP | 22 November 2017, 07:54 | Inter-Orthodox relations |
Andriy Yurash on information educatiuonal activities of the UOC-MP: in a step from the “crucified boy” | 21 November 2017, 16:00 | Church-state relations |
Law 4128 to eliminate danger of people in military fatigues near churches | 21 November 2017, 13:32 | Legislation |
Seized premises of the UOC-KP to be passed to Crimean Ministry of Property | 21 November 2017, 11:22 | Land and property problems |
Chaly: It’s time for US to officially recognize Holodomor as genocide | 20 November 2017, 12:13 | National religious question |
The oldest Ukrainian church in Australia marks its jubilee | 20 November 2017, 10:16 | Ukrainians outside of Ukraine |
Andriy Yurash: information about support of the UOC at UN is anti-Ukrainian fake | 17 November 2017, 15:37 | International relations |
Ukraine declares Christmas day according to Gregorian calendar its national day off | 16 November 2017, 11:23 | Religious holidays and traditions |
The Head of the UGCC takes part in the solemnities devoted to the 400th anniversary of Basilian Order in Lithuania | 14 November 2017, 13:35 | Ukrainians outside of Ukraine
MPs to vote the Christmas according to Gregorian calendar official day off | 13 November 2017, 14:08 | Religious holidays and traditions |
Roman Catholics open a shelter for homeless in Lviv | 13 November 2017, 11:56 | Charity, social service |
Bukovyna prepares for the installation of the first bishop of a newly formed UGCC eparchy of Chernivtsi | 10 November 2017, 13:58 | UGCC |
The Ukrainian-Americans held the Memorial service at the Holodomor Memorial in Washington, DC. | 10 November 2017, 13:33 | Ukrainians outside of Ukraine |
The Pope urges Ukrainian seminarians to sow culture of peace | 10 November 2017, 12:10 | Vatican |
Pope remembers Ukrainian priest who mentored him | 10 November 2017, 12:07 | UGCC
U.S. Congress presents draft resolution on Holodomor in Ukraine | 8 November 2017, 11:34 | National religious question |
Israel Foreign Ministry asked Ukraine to bring rabbi Nachman's remains to Israel | 7 November 2017, 12:31 | Judaism |
Shepherding Ukrainian Orthodoxy in a New Land: The Metropolitans of the Church | 7 November 2017, 06:34 | Ukrainians outside of Ukraine |
The eldest bishop of the UGCC reposes in the Lord | 6 November 2017, 21:12 | UGCC |
Protestants open already the 40th family-type children's home | 6 November 2017, 13:10 | Charity, social service |
Patriarch Filaret in Menorah Center: Unity of Ukrainian and Jewish peoples is the biggest blow to the aggressor | 6 November 2017, 11:48 | Religious relations |
St Michael is waiting for his assistants | 6 November 2017, 10:19 | Charity, social service |
UGCC in Ohio celebrates its 50th anniversary | 3 November 2017, 09:46 | Ukrainians outside of Ukraine |
Fragment of matzeva found in Lviv during construction work | 3 November 2017, 09:27 | Judaism |
Conference about the unannounced war in Ukraine held in Minsk | 2 November 2017, 15:35 | International relations | |
Eastern Catholic Bishops of Europe: Our Love for the Lord Urges Us to the Proclamation of the Gospel | 1 November 2017, 11:49 | International relations |
His Beatitude Patriarch Sviatoslav celebrated Divine Liturgy at Westminster Cathedral in London | 1 November 2017, 11:33 | International relations |

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100 years after the October Revolution, the martyrdom of the Catholic Church in the USSR
Between November 7 and 8, 1917, the Bolsheviks led by Lenin established a revolutionary government ("October Revolution", according to the Julian calendar), ending the Tsarist empire and establishing the Soviet republic, which then became the USSR. 100 years since that date, on November 8 a book by Prof. Jan Mikrut, titled "The Catholic Church in the Soviet Union from the Revolution of 1917 to Perestrojka" (Verona, Gabrielli Editori, 2017) will be presented at the Gregorian University.
25 October 2017, 13:16 | Society-digest |
Near Rome are reviving the forgotten Ukrainian monastery of St. Theodore the Studite
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