12 December 2017, 10:05 | Reports |  | 

MUSLIMS OF UKRAINE SIGN SOCIAL CONCEPT

The leaders of Muslim community and religious organizations signed a joint document on December 11, 2017 - The Social Concept of Muslims in Ukraine. At a solemn meeting, representatives of Islamic organizations spoke about the history of this document.

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.

8 January 2018, 23:28 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

Two Christmases

Shifting Orthodox Christmas to December would symbolize a distancing from the Russian Orthodox Church and thus from Russia herself. It would mean a rapprochement with the West...

6 December 2017, 08:31 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

A Conflict of Laws

The UOC’s practice of amending the charters of its organizations in accord with Russian rather than Ukrainian law casts a doubtful light on current statements about the supposed autonomy or even autocephaly of the UOC.

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.”

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.