14 June 2018, 08:38 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

Five Objections to a Patriarchate – and Five Responses

… in view of the prospect of an autocephalous Ukrainian Orthodox patriarchate … recognition of a UGCC patriarchate may be timely.

1 June 2018, 13:26 | Analysis | 

All roads lead to Rome. Thoughts following the meeting between the Pope and Metropolitan Hilarion

Rome certainly is the universal See of the Church, even if some do not admit this outright or unequivocally. All roads lead to Rome, even for those who think that they go opposite direction or their own “special way”.

3 May 2018, 11:32 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

Autocephaly in a Nutshell

… the Moscow Patriarchate is busy both in Ukraine and the outside world agitating against such a grant of autocephaly to the UOC-KP and the UAOC, which it regards as schismatic. But its ability to influence world Orthodoxy is limited…

19 March 2018, 17:14 | Publications

Vanished World: Galicia’s Lost Synagogues

Galicia was once home to a large Jewish population. Before the war, Jews were the third most numerous ethnic group in the region, after Poles and Ukrainians, and all Galician cities and towns had vibrant Jewish communities. Much of this heritage was destroyed during the war and most of what remains is in ruins.

19 March 2018, 14:52 | Comments

The world is thirsty for peace

Oksana Bashuk Hepburn, former director with the Canadian Human Rights Commission and president of a consulting firm dealing with international affairs

14 March 2018, 07:48 | Events & people |  | 

Keepers of Sloboda Menorah. About the past and the present of Kharkiv Karaites

12 March 2018, 10:05 | Reports | 

Lviv to become a center of parish life in Europe

Lviv will host the 30th Colloquium of European Parishes (CEP), which brings together the clergymen and lay people who would like to revitalize their parish life.

1 March 2018, 21:06 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

Are More Religions Better?

Orthodox competition has increased throughout Ukraine since 2000. But has religiosity increased?

27 February 2018, 15:27 | Open theme | 

Re-registration of religious organizations in ‘Luhansk People’s Republic’: mockery of freedom of conscience

While some church entities in Ukraine are vocal in declaring persecution and unacceptable interference of Ukrainian state authorities into internal church affairs, some very interesting processes are developing in the temporarily occupied territory of the Luhansk region (hereinafter “LNR”) that suggest comparison with Ukrainian “persecutions”.

14 March 2018, 07:48 | Events & people |  | 

Keepers of Sloboda Menorah. About the past and the present of Kharkiv Karaites

12 March 2018, 10:05 | Reports | 

Lviv to become a center of parish life in Europe

Lviv will host the 30th Colloquium of European Parishes (CEP), which brings together the clergymen and lay people who would like to revitalize their parish life.

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.

14 June 2018, 08:38 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

Five Objections to a Patriarchate – and Five Responses

… in view of the prospect of an autocephalous Ukrainian Orthodox patriarchate … recognition of a UGCC patriarchate may be timely.

1 June 2018, 13:26 | Analysis | 

All roads lead to Rome. Thoughts following the meeting between the Pope and Metropolitan Hilarion

Rome certainly is the universal See of the Church, even if some do not admit this outright or unequivocally. All roads lead to Rome, even for those who think that they go opposite direction or their own “special way”.

3 May 2018, 11:32 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

Autocephaly in a Nutshell

… the Moscow Patriarchate is busy both in Ukraine and the outside world agitating against such a grant of autocephaly to the UOC-KP and the UAOC, which it regards as schismatic. But its ability to influence world Orthodoxy is limited…

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.