31 August 2018, 16:40 | Kateryna Shchotkina's column | 

Church after Tomos – State and National Project or EX ORIENTE LUX?

The Ukrainian Church can become “fresh blood” for the ancient and in some cases an outdated structure. The blood which simply did not get there previously because of the barriers created by Russian Orthodoxy.

28 August 2018, 23:39 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

A single Ukrainian Orthodox Church: will the plurality become a majority?

On the question of a unified Ukrainian Orthodox Church, a total of 42 percent of the respondents supported the initiative…

9 August 2018, 16:46 | Tornike Metreveli's column | 

Russia’s Wars and Russkii Mir – Between and Beyond the Statehood

August 7, 2018 marked 10th anniversary of Russia’s military invasion to Georgia. A full-scale military operation in grave violation of international law carried a message to the rest of the former Soviet states: do not dare to choose Georgia’s political vector or you will pay the price.

29 July 2018, 20:45 | Andrew Sorokowski's column | 

Autocephaly: Who Decides?

Since when does Moscow, rather than the Ecumenical Patriarchate, have the right to create new Churches, to insist that they are the only canonical Orthodox Churches of countries beyond Russia, to maintain jurisdiction over them, and to reserve for itself the right to grant or deny them autocephaly?

23 July 2018, 13:31 | Society-digest | 

LB: Fifth element of Ukrainian autocephaly

Perhaps few in Ukraine in the summer of 2018 need an explanation of what is a Tomos. Today it is almost a meme, of which, however, no average Ukrainians were aware just a couple of years ago. This is a historic act granting Ukraine and its Orthodox believers a legitimate canonical right to break away from Moscow's suffocating embrace.

22 July 2018, 11:00 | Reports | 

Jehovah’s Witnesses have released the New Testament and the book of Genesis in sign language

The translation of the book of Genesis was started in January 2017. On July 17, 2018, as a result of painstaking work, a video of the book of Genesis in sign language was released. The translation of the New Testament (Christian Greek Scriptures) took 8 years. A team of volunteer translators from different countries worked on the sign language Bible. This translation is based on the New World Translation – a modern translation of the Holy Scriptures that encompasses the latest findings of Bible research.

17 July 2018, 11:50 | Reports | 

Тhouthands of foreign delegates of the Jehovah’s Witnesses convention in Lviv in addition to spiritual refreshment experienced positive emotions after visiting Ukraine

About 3 500 foreign delegates from different countries arrived in Lviv on 6 July to attend the Special Convention of Jehovah’s Witnesses entitled “Be Courages!”.

12 July 2018, 08:21 | James Siemens' column | 

The Fallacy and the Truth of Catholic Theology

There can be no doubt that we stand at the threshold of a new world era. The antithesis seems to be settling into a new synthesis, and it is not one that promises an easy ride for the Church.

29 June 2018, 11:59 | Analysis | 

What’s in a Name?

The Eastern Orthodox - that is, those Christians whose Orthodox traditions, theology, and spiritual practice are lived outside of communion with Rome, yet with communion amongst themselves and at least four ancient, apostolic sees - often suggest that it is not possible to be Orthodox in communion with Rome, as just being in communion with Rome nullifies any claim to Orthodoxy.

23 June 2018, 10:24 | Events & people | 

“In Exile No Longer” : Holy Family Cathedral Celebrates 50 years

The Greek-Catholic Church had been outlawed by the Soviet Communists in 1945, but Pope Pius XII defended it and made a promise to preserve the Church abroad and to reconstitute its hierarchy.

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.