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Andriy Yurash: Ukraine has the world’s most liberal legislation on religion | 13 February 2018, 12:52 | Legislation |
The Russian Church considers the Kremlin list as direct pressure of the USA on Russian authorities and electorate | 13 February 2018, 12:13 | World news |
UOC-MP collects 1200 signatures to legalize unauthorized constructions near the Church of Tithes | 12 February 2018, 13:45 | Land and property problems |
Our Patriarchate will help towards the joining of Churches | 12 February 2018, 12:02 | UGCC |
Bill on recognition of Holodomor in Ukraine as genocide submitted to Israeli Knesset | 7 February 2018, 13:05 | International relations |
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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.
Expert thought
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.
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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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31 January 2018, 15:50 | Society-digest
The Battle of Kruty: legend and people
The best way to honor the exploit and tragedy of heroes is to “humanize” them, refresh in memory the circumstances of a heroic self-sacrifice and the faces of the killed people, and reconstruct the course of dramatic events.
25 January 2018, 14:42 | Society-digest
What Leadership Lessons Can Business Learn from Ukraine’s War?
25 January 2018, 14:33 | Society-digest
The church that thrives in a ghost town
The town of Centralia has been left to die - but its last remaining church is thriving.
24 January 2018, 12:05 | Society-digest |
“Putin is your God!”
The conflict between the Orthodox Church and patriotically-minded Ukrainians is becoming ever more pronounced, as priests preach ideology from the pulpit.
18 January 2018, 21:33 | Society-digest
New initiative will help Ukraine preserve its Jewish cemeteries and heritage for future generations
17 January 2018, 19:18 | Society-digest
St. Andrew’s Society Supports Elderly Refugees in Mariupol, Ukraine
The Society has raised and funded over $1.3 million projects in Ukraine. The major effort most recently supported by St. Andrew’s Society has focused on charitable outreach.
17 January 2018, 19:07 | Society-digest |
Mustafa Dzhemilev: Russian methods of repression in Crimea worse than Soviet times
17 January 2018, 18:15 | Society-digest |
Equilibrium and Ignominy
17 January 2018, 12:57 | Society-digest
Freed Ukrainian Professor On The Hardest Two Years of His Life
10 January 2018, 16:29 | Society-digest
Moscow-led church in Ukraine refuses to bury boy from Kiev branch
Death of a baby crushed by a man jumping from apartment block exposes religious divide in the Orthodox Christian country
10 January 2018, 16:03 | Society-digest
Russia is destroying 16th Century Crimean Tatar Khan’s Palace in occupied Crimea
23 November 2017, 15:05 | Society-digest |
Impacts of Ukrainian famine Holodomor still resonate after generations
17 November 2017, 17:47 | Kaleidoscope-digest |
The Zaborovsky code
10 November 2017, 13:51 | Society-digest
1917 changed the world and my life
The Revolution destroyed the life of Mennonites in that area of the world.
25 October 2017, 13:25 | Society-digest |
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
In a picturesque area near lake Albano, just outside Rome there is the Ukrainian area – the monastery of St. Theodore the Studite “Studion” and the eponymous Church.
25 October 2017, 13:11 | Society-digest |
From Euromaidan to the prisons of Donbas: the tale of a Ukrainian military chaplain
Father Valentyn Serovetskyi, a priest of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kyiv Patriarchate), had spent 59 days as a captive of the “Luhansk People’s Republic” (“LNR”), a Kremlin-run statelet in eastern Ukraine. Over the course of this internment, he could have died two or three times.
23 October 2017, 16:39 | Society-digest |
Local Ukrainian Church celebrates 100 years
19 October 2017, 13:57 | Society-digest
Ukrainian bishop sees ‘real chance of peace’ in country’s crisis
The Catholic bishop responsible for eastern Ukraine has backed calls for the deployment of international peacekeepers and praised “pressure from below” to end the nearly four-year war.
13 October 2017, 11:38 | Society-digest
Have courage, pray fervently, pope tells churches facing persecution
Before the Mass, Pope Francis visited the nearby Pontifical Oriental Institute and greeted the members of the Congregation for Eastern Churches as well as the patriarchs and major archbishops the congregation supports.
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